Shoeshine
Sciuscià
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In post-WWII Rome, two impoverished young shoeshine boys pool their earnings to buy a white riding horse, but are manipulated into a petty black market robbery and sent to a brutal juvenile prison where corrupt guards destroy their pure fraternal friendship. Vittorio De Sica and Cesare Zavattini's heartbreaking Italian neorealist milestone that received the first-ever Honorary Academy Award for Foreign Language Film.
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