One of the greatest achievements of Italian neorealism, Vittorio De Sica’s SHOESHINE stands as a timeless masterpiece of trenchant social observation and stirring emotional humanism. In postwar Rome, street kids Giuseppe and Pasquale shine the shoes of American servicemen in hopes of saving enough money to purchase a horse. But when Giuseppe’s brother tricks them into participating in a scam, the duo are arrested and then ground through the merciless gears of the juvenile detention system.
