The Bicycle Theif

"The Bicycle Thief" is a deeply moving neo-realist study of post-War Italy which depicts one man’s loss of faith and his struggle to maintain personal dignity in poverty and bureaucratic indifference. Antonio Ricci is a bill-poster whose bicycle, essential for his job, is stolen by a thief. Joined by his son Bruno, Antonio vainly searches for his bike, eventually resorting to the humiliation of theft himself. Throughout this paper, I will attempt to trace …

…great film maker’s eagerness to seek the larger unit - - to talk to the whole world - - went well with his enthusiasm for understanding the smallest of the small, i.e. the individuality, ultimately, of each person. (Mamartya, p, 27) Bibliography Works Cited _____________, "The Bicycle Thief; Ladri Di Bicilette," McGill’s Survey of Cinema, 15 June 1995 Mamartya, Sen, "Our Culture, Their Culture, Satyagig Ray And The Art of Universalism," Vol. 214, The New Republic, 1 April 1996