Shoeshine (film)

Shoeshine
Shoeshine
	Film poster
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
Release date	27 April 1946;
Running time	93 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian/English

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.

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.

^ "Sciuscià (1946)". Archivio del Cinema Italiano. Retrieved 10 September 2021.
^ "Ecco i cento film italiani da salvare Corriere della Sera". www.corriere.it. Retrieved 11 March 2021.

[1] "Sciuscià (1946)". Archivio del Cinema Italiano. Retrieved 10 September 2021.

[2] "Ecco i cento film italiani da salvare Corriere della Sera". www.corriere.it. Retrieved 11 March 2021.

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