Lamberto Maggiorani, star of Vittorio Di Sica’s 1948 neorealist gem Bicycle Thieves (or The Bicycle Thief, as it is sometimes called), takes a look around a bike shop in Rome. The foundry worker became an international star — briefly– thanks to the Di Sica film, about a struggling laborer whose means of transport is stolen, throwing him and his family into bleak despair. Photo: D. Esposto.