Shoeshine 4K UHD + Blu-Ray (US Import)

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Shoeshine 4K UHD + Blu-Ray (US Import)
Criterion

Original title: Sciuscià

Year: 1946
Country: Italy
Region Code: 4K UHD: A/B/C; Blu-Ray: A
Content: 4K UHD + Blu-Ray
EAN: 715515317214

Image: 1.37:1 (2160p)

HDR: -

Audio: Italian - Uncompressed Mono

Subtitles: English

Rating: Not Rated

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rinaldo Smordoni, Franco Interlenghi

Director: Vittorio De Sica


Synopsis:

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 most haunting by its child's-eye perspective, Shoeshine stands as one of the defining achievements of postwar Italian filmmaking.

Extras:

• 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 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