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Jun 13, 2024 · The boys are busted and thrown into an overcrowded prison distinguished by its off-handed inhumanity. Their friendship is the first casualty. Worse will follow.
Jun 13, 2024 · Made in the aftermath of World War II, Vittorio De Sica’s “Shoeshine” is a juvenile delinquency film with a difference. The grievous misdeeds are committed against children, both by adults and an Italian system of justice as vacuous as it is corrupt.
Jun 22, 2024 · Giuseppe (Rinaldo Smordone) and Pasquale (Franco Interlenghe) are pre-adolescent shoeshine boys who eke out a meager living shining the boots of American GI’s stationed in Rome. They also have a side hustle: helping black-marketeers sell stolen goods.
Jun 26, 2024 · Opening in 1946, the narrative simply follows two homeless, basically innocent boys, Pasquale (sensitive Franco Interlenghi) and Giuseppe (spirited Rinaldo Smordoni), in postwar Rome occupied by American troops. The two shine shoes and dream of buying a horse.
Jun 18, 2024 · The film follows two young impoverished boys who are trying to buy themselves a horse. After getting involved with one of the boy's criminal brother and his scheme to rob a fortune teller, the boys are arrested and taken to a juvenile prison.
Jun 11, 2024 · The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences bestowed “Shoeshine” with the first award for Best International Feature Film. The picture centers on two friends, the adolescent Pasquale (Franco Interlenghi) and the slightly younger Giuseppe (Rinaldo Smordoni). They make a meager living shining shoes — mostly, it seems, of American G.I.’s.
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Jun 14, 2024 · Vittorio De Sica’s 1946 neo-realist drama helped put Italian movies at the center of world cinema, Richard Brody writes.
