Shoe shine (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Shoe shine |
| Original title | Sciuscià |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1946 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Vittorio de Sica |
| script |
Sergio Amidei Adolfo Franci Cesare Zavattini Cesare Giulio Viola |
| production |
Giuseppe Amato Paolo Tamburella |
| music | Alessandro Cicognini |
| camera |
Anchise Brizzi Elio Paccara |
| cut | Niccolò Lazzari |
| occupation | |
| |
Shoeshine (Original title: Sciuscià [ʃuʃa] ) is an Italian feature film from 1946, which the masterpieces of Italian neorealism is counted. The director was Vittorio de Sica . He was also listed as Schuschia .
action
Rome after World War II . Pasquale Maggi and Giuseppe Filippucci have long dreamed of owning their own horse, but they cannot afford any from their meager income as shoe shiners.
When Giuseppe's older brother Attilo offered them a job, they took the opportunity: On behalf of Panza, a fender and crook, they made a fortune teller out of a lot of money. This dishonest income enables them to make the long-awaited purchase. Some time later, however, they are arrested by the police: Apparently Attilo and Panza pretended to be police officers and stole 700,000 lire from the fortune teller. The boys are now falsely accused and taken to a juvenile prison.
In prison, Giuseppe receives a package of groceries with a message from Panza in it. This instructs the boy to cover up Attilo and deny his involvement in the fraud. Nevertheless, the police chief manages to elicit the names of Panza and Attilo from Pasquale during interrogation by making him believe that Giuseppe is being tortured in the next room. Pasquale initially withholds what happened to his brother. When he learns about it, he gets angry and scolds Pasquale as a spy. The attempt of the two to reconcile is frustrated by Riccardo, a cellmate.
In court, Giuseppe was sentenced to one, while Pasquale was sentenced to two years in prison. Some time later, during a film screening in the prison, the boys attempted to escape. When discovered, they start a fire and start a prison riot. During the riot, one of Pasquale's friends is trampled to death.
Pasquale blames Giuseppe for the events. When the police catch up with him, he shows them where the prisoners have fled to. He pursues Giuseppe and catches up with him on a bridge. Pasquale hits Giuseppe with his belt until he falls from the bridge and hits his head on a stone. When the police arrive, Pasquale bends sobbing over the body of his dead friend.
criticism
The Lexicon of International Films considers the film to be “a key work of Italian neorealism, which combines its angry accusation of jealousy and brutality in the adult world with a plea for humanity and hope. Exceptionally dense in the description of the milieu, characters and post-war atmosphere and because of its realistic drawing in the humane attitude. "
Trivia
In Italian, shoeshine actually means lustrascarpe - but the corruption of English shoeshine led in the post-war period in the Neapolitan dialect to Sciuscià , which meant street boys who often offered themselves to the US occupation soldiers with this neologism to shine their shoes.
Awards
- 1948: Honorary Oscar for the best international film
- 1946: Nastro d'Argento for directing the best Italian film : Vittorio De Sica (shared with Alessandro Blasetti for Un giorno nella vita )
Web links
- Shoeshine boy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Shoe shine in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Shoe shine. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .