Sciuscià (Shoe Shine) (Shoe-Shine) (1947)
Release Date: Apr 27, 1946 Wide
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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
Apr 27, 1946 Wide
May 17, 2011
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Cast
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Pacifico Astrologo
Vittorio -
Franco Interlenghi
Pasquale -
Antonio Carlino
L'Abruzzese -
Bruno Ortensi
Arcangeli -
Aniello Mele
Raffaele -
Emilio Cigoli
Staffera -
Angelo D'Amico
Siciliano -
Francesco de Nicola
Ciriola -
Enrico de Silva
Giorgio -
Antonio Lo Nigro
Righetoo -
Gino Saltamerenda
Il panza -
Rinaldo Smerdoni
Giuseppe
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A keystone in a historic cinematic movement, but this release does not persuade that it equals the best of its era or its genre.
When viewed today seems to be in need of a buffing.
Vittorio De Sica's second film was the first major success of the neorealistic movement and the first film to win the Best Foreign Language Oscar.
Shoeshine's tragedy evolves from the overall environment and system as much as it does from the individual choices the boys make.
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"Shoe Shine" is a very moving, yet also occasionally playful, film that also contains a very serious message. If, Bill Hicks notwithstanding, you feel that children are the future(and I think that's why a psychic is involved in the story), then the film makes an excellent case for the authorities squandering Italy's future by treating its orphan children so poorly in jailing and punishing so many, instead of trying to care for them. This is at a time when children were forced to grow up too quickly, anyway, while not being educated in any meaningful way. At least, Pasquale and Giuseppe have an eye on their future by buying a horse as an investment, and not just to ride on.
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Foreign Titles
- Shoeshine (Sciuscia) (DE)
- Shoeshine (Sciuscia) (UK)
