Label: Image Entertainment
Studio: Image Entertainment
DVD Format: Snap Case, Academy , 1.33:1, 0, Black and White, Sides:1 (SS-SL)
DVD Features: Subtitles: English, Audio Track 1: Italian, Dolby Digital 1.0, Audio Track 2: English, Dolby Digital 1.0
Region: 1 (USA, Canada and US territories)
DVD Format: Custom, Academy , Black and White
DVD Features: Subtitles: English, Audio Track 1: Italian, Dolby Digital 1.0
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
(Italy, 1948) One of the landmark films of world cinema and winner of an Honorary Academy Award (in the days before the Foreign Language Oscar), Vittorio De Sica's powerful classic was shot on the streets of post-war Italy, during a period of devastating unemployment. Lamberto Maggiorani plays a man trying to support his desperate family with a new job, only to have his bicycle – his main means of transportation for work – stolen, and he searches the streets with his son to find it. The 2-disc set features a bonus disc of supplements and an accompanying booklet.
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