Shoeshine - The Criterion Collection (4K Ultra HD)

Shoeshine - The Criterion Collection4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray (Restored)Genre: World CinemaLabel: Criterion CollectionDescription: 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 centre 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.