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Bicycle Thieves (Italian: Ladri di biciclette; originally titled The Bicycle Thief in the United States)[3] is a 1948 film directed byVittorio De Sica. The film follows the story of a poor father searching 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 a novel by Luigi Bartolini, and starring Lamberto Maggiorani as the desperate father and Enzo Staiola as his plucky young son, Bicycle Thieves is one of the masterpieces of Italian neorealism. It received anAcademy Honorary Award in 1950 and, just four years after its release, was deemed the greatest film of all time by Sight & Soundmagazine's poll of filmmakers and critics;[4] fifty years later the same poll ranked it sixth among greatest-ever films.[5] It is also one of the top ten among the British Film Institute's list of films you should see by the age of 14.
ITALIAN NEO REALISM
Cesare Zavattini’s Essay published in Sight and Sound 1953 is a key Text: LINK
Umberto D. (pronounced [umˈbɛrto di]) is a 1952 Italian neorealist film directed by Vittorio De Sica. Most of the actors were non-professional, including Carlo Battisti, who plays the title role of Umberto Domenico Ferrari, a poor old man in Rome desperately trying to keep his room. His landlady (Lina Gennari) is evicting him, and his only true friends, the housemaid (Maria-Pia Casilio) and his dog Flike (called 'Flag' in some subtitled versions of the film) are of no help.