Bicycle Thieves 1948 Watch Free in HD

Lamberto Maggiorani

28 August 1909, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Enzo Staiola

15 November 1939, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Lianella Carell

6 May 1927, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Elena Altieri

7 July 1910, Stresa, Piedmont, Italy

Gino Saltamerenda

2 June 1902, Rome, Lazio, Italy

13 January 1904, Nonantola, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Emma Druetti

Carlo Jachino

3 February 1887, Sanremo, Liguria, Italy

Giulio Battiferri

July 15, 1893 in Rome, Lazio, Italy

Sergio Leone

3 January 1929, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Mario Meniconi

Checco Rissone

July 7, 1909 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy

Vittorio De Sica

7 July 1901, Sora, Lazio, Italy

Luigi Bartolini

8 February 1892, Cupramontana, Marche, Italy

Cesare Zavattini

29 September 1902, Luzzara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Antonio Ricci

Played by: Lamberto Maggiorani

Bruno Ricci

Played by: Enzo Staiola

Maria Ricci

Played by: Lianella Carell

Baiocco

Played by: Gino Saltamerenda

The Beggar

Played by: Giulio Chiari

Time Out

De Sica carefully balances a generally tragic sensibility with a quiet undercurrent of hope, all the while sucking us into the story with the sheer urgency of the search for a stolen bicycle.

November 18, 2011

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LarsenOnFilm

...captures, in elemental strokes, the crushing of the human spirit at the hands of poverty, indifference and despair.

April 01, 2012

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Creative Loafing

It's not hyperbole to flatly state that this is one of the all-time greats in the annals of cinema; on my own list, only Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal ranks higher when it comes to foreign-language films.

April 09, 2016

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Chicago Reader

Undeniably the most important neorealist film after Rossellini's Open City.

January 14, 2013

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The Nation

The Bicycle Thief does have a certain ramshackle simplicity, quietness, and even naivete that are not unwelcome as a change from the stunning noise, ingenuity, and sophistication of Hollywood.

January 14, 2013

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Time Out

It's a title you simply must watch, not necessarily for the truths it packs but rather for the bombed-out buildings of postwar Italy, peripheral details that director Vittorio De Sica insisted on.

November 04, 2009

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Times (UK)

Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves is tender and immediate, a simple tale of a man whose bike is stolenwhen his job and life depends upon it.

August 13, 2015

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Variety

The picture is a pure exercise in directorial virtuosity.

July 06, 2010

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Los Angeles Times

This film manages to appeal to the better angels of our nature in a way that only deepens as we grow older along with the film.

January 07, 2010

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ColeSmithey.com

[VIDEO ESSAY] Vittorio De Sica advanced Italian neorealist cinema in 1948 with a modest story about a family man trying to get back the bicycle that was stolen from him.

March 10, 2012

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Q Network Film Desk

It has passages of beauty and heartbreak that suggest a genuine humanism that is all too often lacking from movies whose primary goals are to thrill, excite, or otherwise distract from life itself.

March 30, 2016

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Chicago Reader

The work of screenwriter Cesare Zavattini, director Vittorio De Sica, the nonprofessional actors, and many others is so charged with a common purpose that there's no point in even trying to separate their achievements.

January 14, 2013

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