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Cineteca di Bologna
Directed by: Vittorio De Sica
Featuring: Franco Interlenghi, Rinaldo Smordoni, Aniello Mele, Bruno Ortensi, Emilio Cigoli, Gino Saltamerenda, Anna Pedoni, Leo Garavaglia, Enrico De Silva, Antonio Lo Nigro, Pacifico Astrologo, Maria Campi, Giuseppe Spadaro, Antonio Nicotra, Irene Smordoni
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 center, 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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Format:
Blu-ray
Disc:
BD-50 (1 Disc)
Total: 1 Disc
Regions:
A (Blu-ray)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37:1
Audio Options:
Italian PCM Mono 1.0
Resolution:
1080p/24
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Documentary, Featurette, Radio Program, Theatrical Trailer, Booklet
- 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
- An essay by film scholar David Forgacs and “Shoeshine, Joe?,” a 1945 photo-documentary by De Sica
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Restoration Information
Shoeshine
Restoration by:
L Immagine Ritrovata
Year: 2024
Scanned at: 4K Digital
Restored at: 4K Digital
Sources:
35mm Print
Release Notes on Restoration
Shoeshine is presented in the aspect ratio of 1.37:1. Undertaken by The Film Foundation and Cinetece di Bologna in association with Orium S.A., this new 4K restoration was created using the best surviving elements. Funding for the restoration was provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation.