PIZZA & ITALIAN CINEMA!

Enzo Staiola in film 'Bicycle Thieves' (1948).

Today's Google Doodle is celebrating most popular Italian dish 'Pizza', loved all around the world! As stated (on this day in 2007) 'Pizzaiuolo' was inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity!

So I remembered above scene from Vittorio De Sica's Italian neo-realist masterpiece.. 'Bicycle Thieves' (1948). In this, to cheer upset son Bruno, father Antonio offers pizza to him!

This role played by Enzo Staiola who is 80+ now!

A Tribute!!

- Manoj Kulkarni