Shoeshine (1946)
- Original title
- Sciuscià
- Directed by
- Vittorio De Sica
- Genre
- drama film, prison film, crime film, coming-of-age film
- Country
- Italy
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Rated
- 16
- Rating
- 7.8 of 10 from 276 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Two poor boys in postwar Rome shine shoes and dream of buying a horse. When they get mixed up with the police, their friendship is pushed to a breaking point.
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What happens
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. Film critic Pauline Kael summed up the power of the film by saying "if people cannot feel Shoeshine, what can they feel?" and equated it to music by Mozart had he written an opera set in poverty. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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