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Corinth Films
Directed by: Vittorio De Sica
Featuring: Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Gino Saltamerenda, Vittorio Antonucci, Giulio Chiari
Hailed around the world as one of the greatest movies ever made, the Academy Award–winning Bicycle Thieves, directed by Vittorio De Sica, 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 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.
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Format:
Blu-ray
Disc:
BD-50 (1 Disc)
Total: 1 Disc
Regions:
A (Blu-ray)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37:1
Audio Options:
English Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
Italian PCM Mono 1.0
Resolution:
1080p/24
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Interview, Documentary, Booklet
- Working with De Sica, a collection of interviews with screenwriter Suso Cecchi D’Amico, actor Enzo Staiola, and film scholar Callisto Cosulich
- Life as It Is, a program on the history of Italian neorealism, featuring scholar Mark Shiel
- Documentary from 2003 on screenwriter and longtime Vittorio De Sica collaborator Cesare Zavattini, directed by Carlo Lizzani
- A booklet featuring an essay by critic Godfrey Cheshire and reminiscences by Vittorio De Sica and his collaborators
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Release Credits
Producer: Johanna Schiller
Artwork: F. Ron Miller
Release Notes on Restoration
Bicycle Thieves
Bicycle Thieves is presented here in its original aspect ratio of 1.33:1. On widescreen televisions, black bars will appear on the left and right of the image to maintain the proper screen format. This new digital transfer was created in 4K resolution on a Scanity film scanner from a 35mm safety fine-grain master made from the original camera negative. The restoration was performed by Digital Film Restore in Chennai, India. The original monaural soundtrack was remastered at 24-bit from a 35mm optical soundtrack print. Clicks, thumps, hiss, hum, and crackle were manually removed using Pro Tools HD and iZotope RX4.