Shoe Shine
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Call Number: Digital Video
Alternate Title: Sciuscià
Year: 1946
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Duration: 87 mins
Language(s): Italian
Subtitle Language(s): English
Though orphan Pasquale (Franco Interlenghi) and his best friend, Giuseppe (Rinaldo Smordoni), squirrel away the money they earn shining shoes in Rome, their dream of buying a horse seems out of reach until Giuseppe’s older brother ropes them into a scheme to con money from a local fortune teller. The boys are able to purchase the horse, but end up in a juvenile detention center where they are slowly driven apart by police determined to make one of them talk.