Shoeshine 4K (1946)
de Vittorio De Sica
Criterion - 18 août 2025
Titre Original :
Audio : Italian: LPCM Mono (48kHz, 24-bit)
Sous-titres : English
Durée : 1h31
Format : 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray / import US
Zone : 4K Blu-ray: Region free
2K Blu-ray: Region A
Genre : Drame
Synopsis
Masterfully capturing the realism of post WWII Italy, award-winning director Vittorio De Sica depicts the lives of two boys entrenched in a world of poverty and violence. Hoping to escape the harsh reality of life on the streets of Rome, Giuseppe and Pasquale spend their days shining the shoes of American troops for tips. But after the boys are sent to a brutal state juvenile detention center for a crime they didn't commit, their lives are changed forever.
Contenu et Bonus
- 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