Two young boys living on the streets work shining shoes. In an attempt to buy a horse they get involved in a crime and end up in a reformatory. The brutality of the world there divides the two friends and, during an escape attempt, one of them is killed. Vittorio De Sica reveals keen and sympathetic understanding of the nature of embittered, frustrated youth and creates a sad and sensitive story about fragility of human relationship.
About the film
Details
- Running time
- 1 hr. 33 min.
- Country, year
- Italy, 1946
- Genre
- Drama
- Language
- Italian, English
- Subtitles
- English, Lithuanian
- Age rating
- Pegi 13
Credits
- Director
- Vittorio De Sica
- Screenplay
- Sergio Amdei, Adolfo Franci, Cesare Giulio Viola, Cesare Zavattini
- Producers
- Paolo William Tamburella
- Cinematography
- Anchise Brizzi
- Cast
- Franco Interlenghi, Rinaldo Smordoni, Annielo Mele
Festivals and awards
- garbės apdovanojimas
- Best Direction
Director
Vittorio De Sica
Best known for the 1948 film The Bicycle Thieves, Vittorio de Sica directed more than 40 films, starred in more than 150 and gained critical recognition in both these roles. From the light-hearted, fluffy comedies to more arresting subjects in the wake of WWII and later mainstream endeavours, his works were instrumental in the forming of the canon of post war Italian cinema, their influence still being felt decades later.
