Shoeshine
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| Shoeshine | |
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| Directed by | Vittorio De Sica |
| Produced by | Giuseppe Amato Paolo William Tamburella |
| Written by | Sergio Amidei Adolfo Franci Cesare Giulio Viola Cesare Zavattini |
| Starring | Franco Interlenghi Rinaldo Smordoni Annielo Mele Bruno Ortenzi Emilio Cigoli |
| Music by | Alessandro Cicognini |
| Cinematography | Anchise Brizzi |
| Editing by | Niccolò Lazzari |
| Distributed by | Lopert Pictures Corporation |
| Release date(s) |  April 27, 1946 26 August 1947 |
| Running time | 93 min. |
| Language | Italian/English |
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Shoeshine (Italian: Sciuscià) is a 1946 film and the first major work directed by Vittorio De Sica. It tells the story of two shoeshining boys who get into trouble with the police after trying to find the money to buy a horse.
Shoeshine belongs to the first round of neorealist films to be made in postwar Italy, and has come to be regarded as one of the quintessential films of the period.
In 1948, it received an Honorary Award at the Academy Awards honouring the high quality of its filmmaking despite the troubles of postwar reconstruction. This award was the precursor of what would later become the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
[edit] External links
- Shoeshine at the Internet Movie Database
- Shoeshine at Rotten Tomatoes
- An essay by Bert Cardullo on Shoeshine
| Preceded by n/a |
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film 1947 (Honorary Award before creation of official award) |
Succeeded by Monsieur Vincent |
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