Bicycle Thieves (The Bicycle Thief) (Criterion Collection) (1948) on DVD

Actor:           Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Gino Saltamerenda, Vittorio Antonucci
Director:      Vittorio De Sica
Genre:          Drama
Year:            1948
Studio:         Criterion
Length:        93
Released:   April 3, 2001 
Rating:         Unrated (Video)
Format:        DVD 
Misc:            Black & White 
Language:   Italian
Subtitles  :    English

DESCRIPTION:

Hailed around the world as one of the greatest movies ever made, Vittorio De Sica’s Academy Award–winning Bicycle Thieves defined an era in cinema. In postwar, poverty-stricken Rome, a man, hoping to support his desperate family with a new job, lose

SPECIAL FEATURES:

• New, restored high-definition digital transfer
• New interviews with screenwriter Suso Cecchi D'Amico, actor Enzo Staiola, and film scholar Callisto Cosulich
• "Life As It Is: The Neorealist Movement in Italy," a new program on the history of Italian neorealism in cinema
• 2003 documentary on screenwriter and longtime Vittorio De Sica collaborator Cesare Zavattini
• Optional English dubbed soundtrack
• New and improved English subtitle translation
• A booklet featuring new essays by critic Godfrey Cheshire and filmmaker Charles Burnett; remembrances by De Sica ands his family and collaborators; and classic writings on Bicycle Thieves by André Bazin and Zavattini