Shoe Shine ( Sciuscià ) ( Shoe-Shine )

Shoe Shine (DVD) (*)

$26.99

Original Title: Sciuscià
Alternate Title: Shoe-Shine
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Mono )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
86 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1946 and produced in:
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Vittorio De Sica

Written By:
Sergio Amidei
Adolfo Franci

Actors:
Franco Interlenghi ..... Pasquale Maggi
Rinaldo Smordoni ..... Giuseppe Filippucci
Annielo Mele ..... Raffaele
Bruno Ortenzi ..... Arcangeli
Emilio Cigoli ..... Staffera
Pacifico Astrologo ..... Vittorio
Maria Campi ..... Palmist
Antonio Carlino ..... L'Abruzzese
Angelo D'Amico ..... Siciliano
Francesco De Nicola ..... Ciriola
Enrico De Silva ..... Giorgio
Leo Garavaglia ..... Inspector
Antonio Lo Nigro ..... Righetto
Anna Pedoni ..... Nannarella
Gino Saltamerenda ..... Il panza
Irene Smordoni ..... Giuseppe's mother
Peppino Spadaro ..... Lawyer Bonavino (as Giuseppe Spadaro)

Synopsis:

Vittorio DeSica's Shoeshine (Sciuscia) is a must-see example of Italian neorealist cinema, ranking with such other neorealist classics as DeSica's Bicycle Thieves (1948) and Umberto D. (1952) and Roberto Rossellini's Rome, Open City (1945). Using nonprofessional actors, DeSica and co-screenwriter Cesare Zavattini, also one of neorealism's leading figures, paint an uncompromising picture of the lives of Italian street children abandoned by their parents at the end of World War II. The film concentrates on two such children, Giuseppe (Rinaldo Smerdoni) and Pasquale (Franco Interlenghi). With no one else to turn to, the boys form a solid friendship, as well as a 'corporation' of sorts: they eke out a living shining the boots of American GIs. The boys' hope for a rosier future is manifested in their dreams of owning a beautiful white horse. This, along with all their other aspirations, is eradicated when the boys are inadvertently shipped off to a reformatory. A failure in Italy (director DeSica noted that postwar Italian audiences preferred the glossy escapism emanating from Hollywood), Shoeshine was a huge success worldwide, as well as the winner of a special Academy Awards. Like Bicycle Thieves, it combines DeSica's frequent focus on children with his emphasis on post-war social problems.

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