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Shoeshine

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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Shoeshine is a 1946 film from Italy directed by Vittorio De Sica.It depicts the grim existence of the poor underclass in Rome in 1944, immediately following liberation by the Americans in World War II. Pasquale and Giuseppe are two poor young urchins. Pasquale is homeless, sleeping in an elevator, and Giuseppe's family is minimally involved. The two boys scrape out a living shining the shoes of American servicemen. They dream of owning a horse, and have picked out a horse at a nearby stable to ride, but the dream seems unattainable.Unattainable, that is, until Giuseppe's older brother Attilio enlists them in a scheme to sell stolen American blankets on the black market. What the boys don't know is that the real scheme is for Attilio and his partner to impersonate policemen and rob the woman who receives the blankets. Pasquale and Giuseppe take the money they receive for dropping off the blankets and buy their horse. Their joy is cut brutally short, however, when they're arrested for burglary. The boys are then absorbed into the maw of the Italian juridical system, with tragic consequences.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Shoeshine is generally regarded as the beginning of the Italian Neorealism movement that became so important in the years after World War II. It earned a special honorary Oscar from AMPAS for achievement in a film not made in the English language, an award that is retroactively considered the first Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
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 Crapsack World
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 Crapsack World: The desperately poor Italian underclass in the immediate aftermath of defeat and humiliation in the war. And the grip despair of juvenile prison, which ruins the lives of two innocent boys.
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 Death of a Child
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 Death of a Child: Poor little Raffaele is trampled to death during the stampede that is triggered by the prison break. And Giuseppe is murdered by Pasquale in a fit of rage.
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 Delicate and Sickly
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 Delicate and Sickly: Raffaele, who is afflicted with an Incurable Cough of Death and is also the sweetest and most innocent of the prisoners. When the warden is interrogating everyone in Pasquale's cell about the file, he slaps all the other boys but can't bring himself to strike poor Raffaele.
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 Don't Split Us Up / int_d2481b26
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 Juvenile Hell / int_d2481b26
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 Prison Films / int_d2481b26
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 Roofhopping / int_d2481b26
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 Street Urchin / int_d2481b26