{"product_id":"shoeshine-4k-uhd-blu-ray-pre-order-18-aug-25","title":"Shoeshine - 4K UHD \u0026 Blu-Ray","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn 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,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eShoeshine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003estands as one of the defining achievements of post-war Italian filmmaking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"a-unordered-list a-vertical\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003eNew 4K digital restoration, undertaken by The Film Foundation and the Cineteca di Bologna, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003eOne 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSciuscià 70\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2016), a documentary by Mimmo Verdesca, made to mark the film’s seventieth anniversary\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003eNew program on\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eShoeshine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand children in Italian neorealism featuring film scholars Paola Bonifazio and Catherine O’Rawe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003eRadio broadcast from 1946 featuring director Vittorio De Sica\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003eTrailer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003eNew English subtitle translation\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003ePLUS: An essay by film scholar David Forgacs and “Shoeshine, Joe?,” a 1945 photo-documentary by De Sica\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNew cover by F. Ron Miller\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Criterion Collection","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46536259076270,"sku":"CC3710UHDBDUK","price":33.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0583\/4614\/3918\/files\/1272_4KBD_3D.jpg?v=1752589457","url":"https:\/\/limelightcollection.co.uk\/en-eu\/products\/shoeshine-4k-uhd-blu-ray-pre-order-18-aug-25","provider":"Limelight Collection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}