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Actor · 1909–1983

Lamberto Maggiorani

Lamberto Maggiorani was an actor. Born on 28 August 1909, this profile follows Lamberto Maggiorani through existing screen stories and their real settings. The connected credits include Bicycle Thieves (1948). The location trail reaches Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II, Porta Portese and Gazometro, with existing stories in Rome. Each stop belongs to a particular work and moment, keeping the creative credit beside the place that gives the story its geography. Explore the films and programmes below to move between performances, collaborators and settings, and use each location’s own story for the documented connection. These are work locations; a credit alone does not establish a personal visit to every mapped stop. The credit and location sources remain alongside each story for further reading.

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Lamberto Maggiorani
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CHAPTER 02

Bicycle Thieves · Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II

Lamberto Maggiorani is credited as cast member on Bicycle Thieves. The work’s existing location story leads to Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II. Antonio searches the market at Piazza Vittorio for the stolen bicycle, turning the crowded square into part of the film’s working economy.

Bicycle Thieves — credits ↗︎Bicycle Thieves — location reference ↗︎

THE PLACES BEHIND THE STORY

A life on the map.

Explore 5 connections. Each connection links to its evidence; outlined circles mark approximate areas, not exact buildings or camera positions.

IN THE STORY

Explore a shared connection.

Browse all people →

WORKS

Culture, connected.

Follow the work through its real places.

KEEP EXPLORING

Cities and Worlds.

CITY

Rome ↗︎

Cinema, fountains, studios and midnight streets. Follow the city where antiquity and modern image-making share the frame.

WORLD · Movies

Bicycle Thieves ↗︎

Follow Bicycle Thieves through 5 real places in Rome. Postwar Rome becomes the film’s working map of precarity, pursuit and moral exhaustion.

PEOPLE IN THE STORY

Creative connections.

Follow collaborators through their work and the real places tied to it.

Director · Writer/Creator · Producer

Vittorio De Sica ↗︎

Vittorio De Sica was an Italian film director. Born on 7 July 1901, this profile follows Vittorio De Sica through existing screen stories and their real settings. The connected credits include Bicycle Thieves (1948). The location trail reaches Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II, Porta Portese and Gazometro, with existing stories in Rome. Each stop belongs to a particular work and moment, keeping the creative credit beside the place that gives the story its geography. Explore the films and programmes below to move between performances, collaborators and settings, and use each location’s own story for the documented connection. These are work locations; a credit alone does not establish a personal visit to every mapped stop. The credit and location sources remain alongside each story for further reading.

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