Lianella carell biography of christopher

Director: Vittorio De Sico

Starring: Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Vittorio Antonucci

Written by: Vittorio De Sica, Cesare Zavattini, Suso Cecchi d’Amico, Gerardo Guerrieri, Oreste Biancoli, Adolfo Franci (story) Luigi Bartolini

Running Time: 93 mins

Original UK Cert: U

Original US Release: 13th December 1949

Born after World War II, Italian Neo-realism was a style of film making that used realistic settings and unprofessional actors to convey a simply structured story., mainly to capture the mood and feel of life in Italy. Robert Rossellini’s ground-breaking Rome, Open City, first introduced us to the genre when it became almost impossible for the director to complete his studio based feature. The genre continued to grow, with many film maker able to construct decent films about life in their country. One of the most highly respected of them is Vittorio De Sico’s moving Bicycle Thieves, a simple story that speaks volumes about the time.

Jobs are very hard to come by so when Ricci gets the opportunity to post advertising posters around the town, he is slightly reluctant to accept as the position demands a bicycle. Ricci has pawned his bike to raise money for food but the job is far to important for his wife that she is wil

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Times are hard, money in short supply and jobs hard to come by in Italy in the years immediately after World War II. Antonio (Lamberto Maggiorani) struggles to feed himself, his wife (Lianella Carell) and his young son Bruno (Enzo Staiola), and leaves home every day looking for work.

One day Antonio is lucky, finding a job putting up posters. But to do the job he needs his own bicycle, to enable him to travel around Rome putting the posters up in different locations. He had a bike already, but pawned it because he needed the money, so his wife encourages him to sell the family linen to raise the money to redeem it.

With his bicycle reclaimed, Antonio is able to start work in his new job. But disaster strikes when the bicycle is stolen in a distraction robbery, and although Antonio gives chase to the thieves, he loses them in the crowded streets. He then conducts an increasingly desperate search around the city, together with his son Bruno, in the hope of finding the bike. Without it, Antonio will lose his job and the means to support his family.

Ladri di biciclette,better known in English as Bicycle Thieves or The Bicycle Thief, is a key film in the Italian neorealist movement, and remains its best known and most celebrated product. Italian neorealism developed in