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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Screenplay by CESARE ZAVATTINI...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Quiet Ending | 3/10/1975 | See Source »

...that is left unclear. But it is certain that De Sica's last collaboration with his old colleague Cesare Zavattini is a wise, delicate and moving work, a worthy ending for an extraordinarily valuable career. ∎Richard Schickel

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Quiet Ending | 3/10/1975 | See Source »

...finest film in the area this weekend is probably Bicycle Thief (1949, by Cesare Zavattini and Vittorio de Sica), at Currier. The understatement and visual beauty of this film underscore a simple drama: an Italian workman and his small son search Rome after a bicycle thief steals the bicycle on which the man's job depends. The amateur actors (a factory worker and a working class boy) playing lead roles are really a joy to see. This was the first major film to use amateurs, and their performances seem almost effortlessly effective. When de Sica and Zavattini approached American film...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: the screen | 10/11/1973 | See Source »

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