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After 2 years of unemployment, the impoverished Antonio's new job delivering cinema posters is threatened when a street thief steals his bicycle. Too poor to by another, he and his son take to the streets in an impossible search for the bike.

This remarkable 1948 drama of desperation and survival in Italy's post-war depression earned a special Oscar for its affecting power. The landmark film defined the Italian Neo-realist approach with its brutal portrayal of post-war life set against the story of love and hope between father and son.