Film: "Ladri di Biciclette"
Wednesday February 1 at 8pm at the Browning Cinema
Directed by Vittorio de Sica
With Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola
Not Rated, 89 minutes, DCP
Italian with English subtitles
Hailed as one of the greatest movies ever made, the Academy Award–winning Bicycle Thieves defined an era in cinema. In poverty-stricken postwar Rome, a man is on his first day of a new job that offers hope of salvation for his desperate family when his bicycle, which he needs for his work, is stolen. With his young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief. Simple in construction and profoundly rich in human insight, Bicycle Thieves embodies the greatest strengths of the Italian neorealist movement: emotional clarity, social rectitude, and brutal honesty.
Free for Notre Dame students. Tickets may be purchased here.
Sponsored by the Meg and John P. Brogan Endowment for Classic Cinema.
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