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Film
Shoeshine
Sciuscià
★ Editor's Pick
Two Roman shoeshine boys dreaming of owning a horse are swept into petty crime by desperate adults and wind up imprisoned in a brutal juvenile facility. De Sica chronicles how systemic poverty and institutional cruelty slowly destroy the boys' bond, the one thing sustaining them. The film is a devastating study of innocence annihilated by a society still reeling from war and occupation.
Language
Italian
Cast
Franco Interlenghi, Rinaldo Smordoni, Annielo Mele, Bruno Ortenzi, Emilio Cigoli
Awards
- Academy Honorary Award for Best Foreign Language Film (1948)
