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Bicycle Thieves 96 minutes, Italy (1948), PG
(4.5)
Rating: 4.5 Stars
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Average user rating (4.8 / 16 votes)
Lamberto Maggiorani and Enzo Staiola in Bicycle Thieves

Grainy monochrome and simple storytelling combine in this moving, neo-realist tale of a young Italian father who must retrieve the stolen bike he needs for his new job

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Bicycle Thieves: This was one of the key works of the Italian post-war neo-realist movement - a school which in the late 1940s and early 1950s provided a platform for the young Michelangelo Antonioni and Luchino Visconti as well as Vittorio de Sica, in a form of filmmaking that applied poetry as well as politics to the lives of ordinary working people...
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