- Shoeshine (film)
Infobox_Film
name = Shoeshine
caption =
writer =Sergio Amidei Adolfo Franci Cesare Giulio Viola Cesare Zavattini
starring =Franco Interlenghi Rinaldo Smordoni Annielo Mele Bruno Ortenzi Emilio Cigoli
director =Vittorio De Sica
producer =Giuseppe Amato Paolo William Tamburella
cinematography =Anchise Brizzi
editing =Niccolò Lazzari
distributor =Lopert Pictures Corporation
released =Italy :April 27 ,1946 United States :26 August ,1947
runtime = 93 min.
language = Italian/English
budget =
music =Alessandro Cicognini
awards =
imdb_id = 0038913 |"Shoeshine" (Italian: "Sciuscià") is a 1946 film and the first major work directed by
Vittorio De Sica . It tells the story of twoShoe shine boys who get into trouble with the police after trying to find the money to buy a horse."Shoeshine" belongs to the first round of neorealist films to be made in postwar Italy, and has come to be regarded as one of the quintessential films of the period.
In
1948 , it received an Honorary Award at theAcademy Awards honouring the high quality of its filmmaking despite the troubles of postwar reconstruction. This award was the precursor of what would later become theAcademy Award for Best Foreign Language Film .External links
*imdb title|id=0038913|title=Shoeshine
*rotten-tomatoes|id=Shoeshine|title=Shoeshine
* [http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/catalogue/shoeshine/ An essay by Bert Cardullo on "Shoeshine"]###@@@KEY@@@###succession box
title=Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
years=1947
(Honorary Award before creation of official award)
before=n/a
after="Monsieur Vincent "
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