Vittorio De Sica's SHOESHINE (1946) - New Criterion Collection DVD, Blu-ray & 4K Ultra HD Release

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Product Description: 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 center, 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.

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Director: Vittorio De Sica

Starring: Rinaldo Smordoni, Franco Interlenghi, Annielo Mele, Bruno Ortensi, Emilio Cigoli

Genre: Drama

Runtime: 91 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: Italian

Studio: Criterion

Home Video Release Date: August 19, 2025

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• DVD - Criterion Collection

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• Blu-ray - Criterion Collection

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• 4K Ultra HD - Criterion Collection

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DVD

• Codec: MPEG-2
• Resolution: 480i
• Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
• Encoding Format: 16:9
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)

Blu-ray

• Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
• Resolution: 1080p
• Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
• Region: Region A/1

4K Ultra HD

• Codec: HEVC / H.265
• Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
• Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
• HDR: HDR10
• Region: Region A/1

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Dubbed:

• DVD: None
• Blu-ray: None
• 4K Ultra HD: None

Audio Formats:

• DVD: Dolby Digital Mono
• Blu-ray: LPCM Mono
• 4K Ultra HD: LPCM Mono

SUBTITLES

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DVD: English

Blu-ray: English

4K Ultra HD: English

SPECIAL FEATURES & EXTRAS

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• New 4K digital restoration, undertaken by The Film Foundation and the Cineteca di Bologna, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• 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

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PICTURES

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