Sciuscià
(1946)
AKA: Shoeshine
Country: Italy
Genre: Drama
Synopsis
Two best friends find their bond tested by the trials of post-war Italy, street crime and prison in this neorealist classic from legendary director Vittorio De Sica (The Bicycle Thief). While shining shoes for a living and dreaming of buying a horse of their very own, young Giuseppe and Pasquale are confronted by harsh reality when they are embroiled in a smuggling ring, quickly learning that innocence and childish dreams can only last for so long in a world of turmoil.
Notes
- Directed by Vittorio De Sica.
- Winner of a Special Oscar in 1947 (a first for a foreign film)
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Cast
- Franco Interlenghi
(Pasquale Maggi) - Rinaldo Smordoni
(Giuseppe Filippucci) - Maria Campi
- Annielo Mele
(Raffaele) - Bruno Ortenzi
- Emilio Cigoli
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The motion picture Sciuscià (SHOESHINE) 1946, is one of the most powerful works of cinema I have ever seen, and experienced, in my entire life. SHOESHINE is simply life. It is broken, torn, and ripped apart life.
The film SHOESHINE is simply life.
I knew that the movie SHOESHINE was fiction, that it was a screenplay created into a film even from a movie studio with sets, and that some of the young actors went on to make other motion pictures. Yet, all that went away evaporating into the universe, and life in its broken forms, permeated, infused, and flooded into the room from the movie screen, and into reality. Tears of sorrow flooded onto my tissue handkerchief. And then once again. And then once again, and then once more.
Here is hope that we will have some good men, and some good women, to correct the injustices of the legal court system. And help the young people in our world.
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Il film Sciuscià 1946, è una delle opere cinematografiche più potenti che io abbia mai visto e vissuto in tutta la mia vita. Sciuscià è semplicemente la vita. È una vita spezzata, lacerata e distrutta.
Il film Sciuscià è semplicemente la vita.
Sapevo che il film Sciuscià era finzione, che era una sceneggiatura trasformata in un film da uno studio cinematografico con set e che alcuni dei giovani attori avevano continuato a recitare in altri film. Eppure, tutto questo è svanito nell'universo e la vita nelle sue forme spezzate ha permeato, infuso e inondato la stanza dallo schermo cinematografico e nella realtà. Lacrime di dolore hanno inondato il mio fazzoletto di carta. E poi ancora una volta. E poi ancora una volta, e poi ancora una volta.
Ecco la speranza che avremo degli uomini buoni, e delle donne buone, per correggere le ingiustizie del sistema giudiziario. E aiutare i giovani del nostro mondo.