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El limpiabotas

Título original: Sciuscià
  • 1946
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 31min
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El limpiabotas (1946)
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En la Roma italiana de la posguerra, dos lustrabotas ahorran para comprarse un caballo, pero su implicación como cómplices en un robo les lleva a la cárcel de menores; la experiencia tiene u... Leer todoEn la Roma italiana de la posguerra, dos lustrabotas ahorran para comprarse un caballo, pero su implicación como cómplices en un robo les lleva a la cárcel de menores; la experiencia tiene un efecto devastador en su amistad.En la Roma italiana de la posguerra, dos lustrabotas ahorran para comprarse un caballo, pero su implicación como cómplices en un robo les lleva a la cárcel de menores; la experiencia tiene un efecto devastador en su amistad.

  • Dirección
    • Vittorio De Sica
  • Guionistas
    • Sergio Amidei
    • Adolfo Franci
    • Cesare Giulio Viola
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    • Rinaldo Smordoni
    • Franco Interlenghi
    • Annielo Mele
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    • Dirección
      • Vittorio De Sica
    • Guionistas
      • Sergio Amidei
      • Adolfo Franci
      • Cesare Giulio Viola
    • Elenco
      • Rinaldo Smordoni
      • Franco Interlenghi
      • Annielo Mele
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    • Nominado a 1 premio Óscar
      • 3 premios ganados y 2 nominaciones en total

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    Rinaldo Smordoni
    • Giuseppe Filippucci
    Franco Interlenghi
    Franco Interlenghi
    • Pasquale Maggi
    Annielo Mele
    • Raffaele
    • (as Aniello Mele)
    Bruno Ortensi
    • Arcangeli
    • (as Bruno Ortenzi)
    Emilio Cigoli
    • Staffera
    Pacifico Astrologo
    • Vittorio
    • (sin créditos)
    Maria Campi
    • Palmist
    • (sin créditos)
    Antonio Carlino
    • L'Abruzzese
    • (sin créditos)
    Angelo D'Amico
    • Siciliano
    • (sin créditos)
    Francesco De Nicola
    • Ciriola
    • (sin créditos)
    Enrico De Silva
    • Giorgio
    • (sin créditos)
    Claudio Ermelli
    Claudio Ermelli
    • Nurse
    • (sin créditos)
    Leo Garavaglia
    • Inspector
    • (sin créditos)
    Antonio Lo Nigro
    • Righetto
    • (sin créditos)
    Antonio Nicotra
    • Social worker
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    Anna Pedoni
    • Nannarella
    • (sin créditos)
    Gino Saltamerenda
    Gino Saltamerenda
    • Il panza
    • (sin créditos)
    Irene Smordoni
    • Giuseppe's mother
    • (sin créditos)
    • Dirección
      • Vittorio De Sica
    • Guionistas
      • Sergio Amidei
      • Adolfo Franci
      • Cesare Giulio Viola
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    9JoeytheBrit

    Shoeshine review

    The first of three classic movies made within five years that placed director Vittorio de Sico at the forefront of the neo-realist movement is the kind of poignant tragedy that lingers long in the mind. Rinaldo Smordoni and Franco Interlenghi give astonishingly assured performances that belie their lack of experience in front of the camera, playing shoeshine boys who find their friendship tested by a spell in prison for selling stolen goods, and De Sica deftly sidesteps the sentimental pitfalls that such stories always present. If that devastating final scene doesn't move you, you're already dead...
    10ElMaruecan82

    "Sciuscia", the rallying cry of a stolen childhood and the heart-breaking epitaph of a destroyed friendship ...

    "Sciuscia" … one word carrying the poignant context of a devastating story, as the Italianization of the word 'Shoeshine', the name given to the little 'ragazzi' who shined GI's boots for a living. We're in 1945, when Italy was still recovering from the ashes of WWII.

    In one title, the tone is set, in an impoverished Italy, the main protagonists are all children carrying in their hands and hearts the hope of a slow rebirth. This light of hope is even conveyed in the opening scene when two kids, two friends, Pasquale and Giuseppe ride horses in the middle of a forest under a bright sunshine. Their fetish-horse is a white one, the fastest one, named Bersagliere, and both dream of owning him. Like in "Bicycle Thieves" or "Umberto D." the simplest things make the most inspirational statements about humanity, a bicycle is synonym of hope, a little dog is the only companionship an old man can dream of, in "Sciuscia", the horse is the dream, the exhilarating feeling of freedom inhabiting Pasquale and Giuseppe's hearts and the cement of a seemingly unbreakable friendship.

    Friendship, if anything, "Sciuscia" is the heart-warming story of a friendship, before it would turn into the heart-breaking chronicle of its destruction, all the more tragic because both couldn't foresee their lives without each other, and De Sica doesn't need to make it said, it's obvious. Pasquale is an orphan who lives in Giuseppe's home and while Giuseppe, younger and more immature, complains about having to give part of his 'shoeshine' money to his family, Pasquale wished he had a family to give money to. These boys have hopes, dreams, principles and even an innocence that haven't been undermined yet by a tragic turn of events. Unfortunately, Giuseppe has an older brother Attilio, who works for a fence named Panza, Attilio incarnates the eventual danger that Giuseppe might end like him and it's not coincidental that we meet him when Giuseppe talks to his child love, a pretty little girl who becomes, at that moment, the last link to childhood before the irreparable would be committed.

    As I said, "Sciuscia" carries the whole story in its title, it was in 1945, the GI were still here, and while the political authority was in reconstruction, many Italians made money through Black Market. Giuseppe and Pasquale were given a mission: to sell some US blankets to an old-lady, unknowing that Attilio and Panza would come up later passing as cops to steal the poor woman. Given enough money to buy the horse, they'll live the happiest parenthesis of their lives, riding Bersagliere, an exciting state of grace interrupted when they're questioned by the cops regarding the stealing of the old lady's money. Refusing to break the Omerta, and having no proof against them, both kids agree not to talk and patiently spend their time in the juvenile detention center.

    "Sciuscia" turns into a powerful social commentary about juvenile delinquency as the only desperate answer to difficult economical conditions, when kids were put in the same trunk with prostitutes, when some were forced to steal to nourish their family. As the trunk leaves the street, both Giuseppe and Pasquale are precociously leaving childhood, incarnated by the little girl who follows the trunk. And the center is filmed with a documentary-like style that finds the right tone between pathos and cold realism, De Sica trusts our intelligence enough not to portray the kids as little angels, some of them lie, frighten the newcomers, provoke fights, but some others are indeed victim of cruelly sad circumstances and a slow bureaucracy, like the kid named Rafaelle who can't be put in a sanatorium despite a severe lung-condition. Even the administrators are not all one-dimensional, they're men who went through Fascism, a war, and only use violence because disorder would be much worse.

    Fatally, Pasquale and Giuseppe have their friendships affected by their detention, starting at the moment they're sent in different cells: their cries and shouts, the way they keep their hands hooked to each other is an extraordinary display of desperate need to be together. Their separation only exposes them to the worst, to the influence of their respective groups that would slowly and progressively drive them apart. And it starts at the pivotal moment of the film when one of the guards pretends to hit Giuseppe to force Pasquale to talk, it's out of his love that Pasquale breaks his premise, and starts the turn of events that will destroy their friendship. Giuseppe will think of Pasquale as a snitch who sold his brother, and as revenge, sets him up in return, putting a deathblow on their friendship.

    It's impossible to describe with words the tragic path the movie takes, and its extreme realism only makes it worse. If "Bicycle Thieves" is regarded as one of the saddest films ever, there still is an imperceptible light of hope at the end. In "Sciuscia", the film doesn't have a sad score, the main theme is the joyful riddle-like music of the white horse that reminds of childhood's insouciance but God, it cruelly contrasts with the slow transformation that involves the two protagonists, even physical, the loss of innocence is one thing, but what can be sadder than a destroyed friendship. Killing the myth of the friendship built behind the bars, the film demonstrates how authority, bureaucracy, order can annihilate the most beautiful aspects of humanity, and finally how fragile are the most beautiful virtues.

    But I wonder if it's not sadder than the film itself, that one of the greatest masterpieces of Italian neo-realism, a movie I knew about through Scorsese's documentary about his Italian influence and Pauline Kael's review, has only 14 reviews (counting mine) while "The Avengers" already has 1207. One thing for sure, no last minute of a film haunted me as much as in "Sciuscia", while I desperately looked for something to keep my faith on humanity.
    10Quinoa1984

    DeSica's first true mark on the world of neo-realism is a small ruby of its time and place

    Sciuscia, or Shoeshine, tells a tragedy involving two boys, Pasquale and Giuseppe, both of whom try and make money from shining shoes, and also in dealing with black market goods. They hope to buy a horse one day (a wonderful opening shot of a horse running fast gets this point across since this is at its core a film of adolescence), but complications involving Giuseppe's older brother and gang land the two boys in jail just as they have enough for the horse. The film then deals with the boys in the reformatory/prison, over-crowded with conniving, shady influences as cell-mates, as well as the people who run the prison. To tell anymore of the plot would ruin it for the viewer who would go out of his way to find this - it's near impossible to find, which is a shame since The Bicycle Thief and Umberto D. are readily available in most stores and rentals - and it's enough to say that much of the film relies more on character than story. Because the director's dealing with a group of near total unknowns, they come first.

    This film, by Vittorio De Sica, was made very soon after the War had decimated the country he lived in. He didn't just want to make this movie, he had to- these characters are as real as their backdrop, a country still in the aftermath of a fascist state of affairs, and since the film deals with children there's all the more emotion to it. The only, very minor liability in the film is that the drama in the material isn't as simple and everyday as DeSica's later, more famous efforts; if it was under different direction it could've become a forgettable tearjerker. But the tragedies of these characters, Pasquale and Giuseppe, is splendid in the humanity that they feel, as it unfolds, and by the end it rings as true as any other given neo-realist effort of the late 40's and early 50's. Shoeshine is one of those rarities that may give a tear-jerker to someone who isn't expecting one, and I mean that as a compliment. Note, if you find this tape, it may be rather grainy and slightly shifty in frame, and the subtitles aren't complete- not to downplay the worth of the film in and of itself, however.
    8create_evegb

    It's surprising that many haven't watched this movie yet.

    Honestly speaking I watch movies based on their ratings and IMDb is one site that I rely on (despite the fact that many good movies are underrated; anyway I suppose it is because movies are subjective) and if I find any movie rated 8 and above I would just die to watch them. One of that kind is Vittorio De Sica's The shoeshine and not just because it was rated 8 and above, but also for the movie being a European product.

    Unlike American movies most of the European movies have close ends rather open ends which make them phenomenal. Now let me tell you why 'The shoeshine' is phenomenal. After having seen the movies Umberto D, Bicycle thief and The Shoeshine(the third movie of De Sica which I watched) it became evident to me that the narrative is spun around the characters (emphasising on the dimensions of the character)where there is a transformation of the character from being vibrant to becoming docile or vice-versa and the like. This can be encountered in all the three movies which I have stated above. Say it be the Father and the son in The Bicycle thief or the old man and the dog in Umberto D or the two boys in The shoeshine.

    For movie buffs this movie is one gem to archive.
    9pathaniav

    Another treat from De Sica

    I have watched the unforgettable and justifiably renowned Bicycle Thief, and the impressive Umberto D. I had long been wanting to watch Shoeshine and finally saw it last evening, enjoying it as movies are meant to be enjoyed - on a big home screen with my new projector. The movie starts on a perky note - two boys, close friends, exuberant at having bought a horse they both love. One is almost lulled into thinking that this will be a buoyant movie about friendship and a horse. It turns out to be several shades darker. It is De Sica's genius that he can pull you in so quickly and make you feel such strong empathy for the two boys as they are brutalized by life within a short span of a few days; their friendship souring and spiraling down towards an ominous end. Be warned, this is a depressing movie. But it is a gem nonetheless, and I know that several scenes will remained etched in my mind forever. In particular, De Sica captures in a starkly beautiful manner the quicksilver bonding and the territorial rivalries of the boys trapped in a bleak Dickens' style detention center. A must watch for any fan of that strain of Italian cinema from the 1940s and 50s.

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    • Trivia
      The title is a Napulitan corruption of the English word "shoe-shiner."
    • Citas

      Giuseppe Filippucci: Whoever invented the elevator is a genius.

      Pasquale Maggi: Tell me about it. I slept in one for three months.

    • Versiones alternativas
      Some USA video editions are edited to suppress the full nudity in the shower scene and to minimize the subsequent fist fight between two boys.
    • Conexiones
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    • Fecha de lanzamiento
      • 11 de agosto de 1948 (México)
    • País de origen
      • Italia
    • Idiomas
      • Italiano
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    • También se conoce como
      • Shoeshine
    • Locaciones de filmación
      • Palazzo di Giustizia, Roma, Lacio, Italia
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      • Societa Cooperativa Alfa Cinematografica
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