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Shoeshine
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1946 film directed by Vittorio De Sica
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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.
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)
Themes
- fortune teller
- rome, italy
- italy
- black market
- juvenile prison
- orphan
- juvenile delinquent
- post world war ii
- military police
- shoeshine boy
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Vittorio De Sica
- Written by
- Sergio Amidei , Adolfo Franci , Cesare Giulio Viola , Cesare Zavattini
- Produced by
- Giuseppe Amato , Paolo William Tamburella
- Starring
- Franco Interlenghi , Rinaldo Smordoni, Annielo Mele, Bruno Ortenzi, Emilio Cigoli
- Cinematography
- Anchise Brizzi
- Edited by
- Niccolò Lazzari
- Music by
- Alessandro Cicognini
- Distributed by
- ENIC
- Release date
- 27 April 1946 ( 1946-04-27 )
- Running time
- 93 minutes
- Country
- Italy
- Language
- Italian/English
- Box office
- $34,677
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Shoeshine” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.