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Shoeshine - The Criterion Collection

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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. 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New 4K digital restoration, undertaken by The Film Foundation and the Cineteca di Bologna, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features Sciuscià 70 (2016), a documentary by Mimmo Verdesca, made to mark the film’s seventieth anniversary New 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 Trailer New English subtitle translation PLUS: An essay by film scholar David Forgacs and “Shoeshine, Joe?,” a 1945 photo-documentary by De Sica New cover by F. Ron Miller

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    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.

    4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
    • New 4K digital restoration, undertaken by The Film Foundation and the Cineteca di Bologna, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
    • One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
    • Sciuscià 70 (2016), a documentary by Mimmo Verdesca, made to mark the film’s seventieth anniversary
    • New 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
    • Trailer
    • New English subtitle translation
    • PLUS: An essay by film scholar David Forgacs and “Shoeshine, Joe?,” a 1945 photo-documentary by De Sica
    • New cover by F. Ron Miller
    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

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