Bicycle Thieves
Ladri di biciclette
audiovisual digital
film
film
core
Lifetime Path
planned
Creators
- Vittorio De Sica, director
- Cesare Zavattini, screenwriter
Canon Rationale
A central Italian neorealist film, included as a bounded watchable work for postwar realism, nonprofessional performance, location shooting, labor precarity, and global art-cinema reception.
Path
Lifetime path, phase 1, rank 54.
Evidence
- institutional list: BFI, 'Bicycle Thieves'.
- review essay: The Criterion Collection, 'Bicycle Thieves'.
Audit Flags
version dependency
Completion unit: watch the film in a specified restored or standard edition.