The Bicycle Thief (Ladri di biciclette) is a 1948
Italian neorealist film about a man who gets a job posting fliers in the depressed post-
WWII economy of Italy; to keep the job, he must have a bicycle. His wife sells her wedding sheets to get the money to buy him a bicycle. Early in the film, the bike is stolen, and the man and his son spend the remainder of the film searching for it. The film was directed by
Vittorio De Sica, stars
Lamberto Maggiorani[?] as the father and
Enzo Staiola[?] as the son, and won an honorary
Academy Award for Foreign Language Film[?] in 1950, and won the
British Academy Awards[?] for Best Film from Any Source. The film was heavily awarded by the
Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists[?], and is commonly considered a film classic.