Bicycle Thieves: So Simple, So Basic, So Completely Unattainable.
Released: November 1948. Directed by: Vittorio De Sica Cast: Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Elena Altieri, Gino Saltamerenda, Giulio Chiari, Vittorio Antonucci, Michele Sakara, Carlo Jachino as A Beggar. Few films are so simple, yet so profound, honest, emotional, and 76 years after its original release, so brutally relevant today. Bicycle Thieves is that movie. The story is simple, Antonio Ricci (LamBerto Maggiorani) is an unemployed man with a wife and two small children. Antonio gets a job, but…
