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Bicycle Thieves

Summary: In post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it.

Release Date: December 13, 1949

Genre: Drama

Director: Vittorio De Sica

Writers: Cesare Zavattini

, Luigi Bartolini

, Oreste Biancoli

Runtime: 1 h 29 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Produzioni De Sica

Distributor: Arthur Mayer & Joseph Burstyn, Image Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, Corinth Films, Films sans Frontières, The Criterion Channel, HBO Max

Country: Italy

Language: Italian

Movie budget: $ 133,000

Domestic: $ 371,111

International: $ 80,225

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