Shoeshine (film)
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"Sciuscià" redirects here. For the comic strip, see Sciuscià (comics).
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.
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Directed by | Vittorio De Sica |
Written by | Sergio Amidei Adolfo Franci Cesare Giulio Viola Cesare Zavattini |
Produced by | Giuseppe Amato Paolo William Tamburella |
Starring | Franco Interlenghi Rinaldo Smordoni Annielo Mele Bruno Ortenzi Emilio Cigoli |
Cinematography | Anchise Brizzi |
Edited by | Niccolò Lazzari |
Music by | Alessandro Cicognini |
Distributed by | ENIC[1] |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian/English |
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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."[2]
Shoeshine became the first film to win the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at the 20th Academy Awards in 1947.