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Shoeshine - The Criterion Collection

£29.99

Released: 18th August 2025. An international breakthrough for neorealism, Vittorio De Sica's Academy Award-winning film is an indelible fable of innocence lost amid the hardscrabble reality of 1940s Italy. On the streets of Rome, two boys - best friends Giuseppe (Rinaldo Smordoni) and Pasquale (Franco Interlenghi) - set out to raise the money to buy a horse by shining shoes. When they are inadvertently caught up in a robbery and sent to a brutal juvenile detention centre, their loyalty to each other is severely tested. A devastating portrait of economic struggle made all the more haunting by its child's-eye perspective, Shoeshine stands as one of the defining achievements of postwar Italian filmmaking.

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  • Details

    Released:
    18th August 2025
    Category:
    Feature, Foreign
    Studio:
    Criterion Collection
    Format:
    4K Ultra HD Blu-ray
    Barcode:
    5061088920821

  • Description

    An international breakthrough for neorealism, Vittorio De Sica's Academy Award-winning film is an indelible fable of innocence lost amid the hardscrabble reality of 1940s Italy. On the streets of Rome, two boys - best friends Giuseppe (Rinaldo Smordoni) and Pasquale (Franco Interlenghi) - set out to raise the money to buy a horse by shining shoes. When they are inadvertently caught up in a robbery and sent to a brutal juvenile detention centre, their loyalty to each other is severely tested. A devastating portrait of economic struggle made all the more haunting by its child's-eye perspective, Shoeshine stands as one of the defining achievements of postwar Italian filmmaking.
    Region Code:
    Region B
    Duration:
    91 minutes
    Original Language:
    Italian
    Extras:
    Language(s): Italian, Subtitles: English, Interactive Menu, Screen ratio 1 - 1.37:1, Mono, Bonus Footage, Documentaries: 'Sciuscià 70' (2016); Program on 'Shoeshine' and children in Italian neorealism featuring film scholars Paola Bonifazio and Catherine O'Rawe., Radio broadcast from 1946 featuring director Vittorio De Sica; Essay by David Forcags (film scholar); 'Shoeshine, Joe?': 1945 photo-documentary by De Sica; New cover by F. Ron Miller., Trailers
    Manufacturer:
    Spirit Entertainment
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    19 Margaret St, London W1W 8RR
    020 7631 8480

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