'Bicycle thief': Last-century Flemish formation theatre at Festival Boulevard #tfboulevard

Once upon a time there was this film, Ladri di Biciclette, Bicycle Thieves in Dutch. Italian director Vittorio de Sica established a totally new film movement with it in 1948: neo-realism. Amateur actors pretty much played their own lives at the bottom of the social ladder. Engaging, inspired, raw and confrontational, especially at the time. Little people, caught in the spiral of social injustice, humiliation and powerlessness, unable to pull themselves or each other up out of that quagmire.
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