Shoeshine (film)

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.

Shoeshine
Film poster
Directed byVittorio De Sica
Written bySergio Amidei
Adolfo Franci
Cesare Giulio Viola
Cesare Zavattini
Produced byGiuseppe Amato
Paolo William Tamburella
StarringFranco Interlenghi
Rinaldo Smordoni
Annielo Mele
Bruno Ortenzi
Emilio Cigoli
CinematographyAnchise Brizzi
Edited byNiccolò Lazzari
Music byAlessandro Cicognini
Distributed byENIC
Release date
  • 27 April 1946 (1946-04-27)
Running time
93 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian/English

In 2008, the film 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.

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