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1948 film by Vittorio De Sica

For other uses, see The Bicycle Thief (disambiguation).

Bicycle Thieves (Italian: Ladri di biciclette), also known as The Bicycle Thief,^[5] is a 1948 Italian neorealistdrama film directed by Vittorio De Sica.^[6] It follows the story of a poor father searching in post-World War II Rome for his stolen bicycle, without which he will lose the job which was to be the salvation of his young family.

Adapted for the screen by Cesare Zavattini from the 1946 novel by Luigi Bartolini, and starring Lamberto Maggiorani as the desperate father and Enzo Staiola as his plucky young son, Bicycle Thieves received an Academy Honorary Award (most outstanding foreign language film) in 1950, and in 1952 was deemed the greatest film of all time by Sight & Sound magazine's poll of filmmakers and critics;^[7] fifty years later another poll organized by the same magazine ranked it sixth among the greatest-ev