Vittorio De Sica - Sciuscià aka Shoeshine (DVD) (1946)

Bert Cardullo, Masters of Cinema Essay, 2006 wrote:Bert Cardullo on ShoeshineShoeshine was conceived out of the experiences of vagrant orphans in povertystricken, postwar Rome, where they organised their enterprises (many of them illegal) in the wake of the Allied liberation. Often these youngsters were seen trailing after American soldiers calling out, “Sciuscià, Gio? – their phonetic equivalent