Ladri di biciclette (Bicycle Thieves) influenced The Apu Trilogy

Satyajit Ray saw De Sica's film in London in 1950 and has written that he came out of the cinema having decided to make Pather Panchali: non professional actors, real locations, and a story small enough to be about one family's money. He told it himself, in the essays collected as Our Films, Their Films. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pather_Panchali