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7.8Two shoeshine boys in postwar Rome, Italy save up to buy a horse, but their involvement as dupes in a burglary lands them in juvenile prison; the experience take a devastating toll on their friendship.
Released: 1946-04-2791 minDir: Vittorio De SicaDrama
Cast
- Franco Interlenghi as Pasquale Maggi
- Rinaldo Smordoni as Giuseppe Filippucci
- Annielo Mele as Raffaele
- Bruno Ortenzi as Arcangeli
- Emilio Cigoli as Staffera
- Gino Saltamerenda as il Panza (uncredited)
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Shoeshine (Italian: Sciuscià [ʃuʃˈʃa], from Neapolitan pronunciation of the English) is a 1946 Italian film directed by Vittorio De Sica. Sometimes regarded as his first masterpiece, the film follows two shoeshine boys who get into trouble with the police after trying to find the money to buy a horse. In 2008, Shoeshine was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978."
Shoeshine became the first film to win the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at the 20th Academy Awards in 1947.
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1946 crime drama films1946 films1946 Italian films1946 Italian-language filmsBest International Feature Film Academy Award winnersFilms about juvenile detentionFilms awarded an Academy Honorary AwardFilms directed by Vittorio De SicaFilms scored by Alessandro CicogniniFilms set in RomeFilms with screenplays by Cesare ZavattiniIMDb ID (Cite Mojo) different from Wikidata