Bicycle ThievesAuthor(s): Robert S.C. Gordon\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: BFI Publishing\nISBN-13: 9781805750918, 978-1805750918\nSynopsis\nVittorio De Sicas Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette, 1948) is unarguably one of the most important films in the history of cinema. It is also one of the most beguiling, moving, and seemingly simple works of narrative ever made. The film tells the story of one man and his son as they search fruitlessly through the streets of Rome for his stolen bicycle; the bicycle which had offered the possibility of escape from the poverty and humiliation of long-term unemployment.\n\nOne of a cluster of extraordinary films to come out of post-war, post-Fascist Italy, loosely labelled neorealist, Bicycle Thieves won an Oscar in 1950, topped the first Sight and Sound poll of the best films of all time in 1952 and has been hugely influential throughout world cinema ever since. It remains a necessary point of.