Directed by Vittorio De Sica, Shoeshine (1946) is a seminal Italian neorealist drama portraying two boys whose friendship collapses after their unjust involvement with the justice system. Winner of an Academy Honorary Award, the film captures postwar Rome with stark realism and moral urgency. Its depiction of institutional failure and lost innocence became a cornerstone of world cinema. Criterion Collection An international breakthrough for neorealism, Vittorio De Sicas 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 childs-eye perspective, Shoeshine stands as one of the defining achievements of postwar Italian filmmaking. Från IMDB: Two shoeshine boys in postwar Rome, Italy save up to buy a horse, but their involvement as dupes in a burglary lands them in juvenile prison; the experience take a devastating toll on their friendship. Detta är en importfilm. De har oftast inte svensk text