In the electrifying final minutes of Vittorio De Sica's 1948 Italian film masterpiece Sciuscià (Shoe Shine), the Neapolitan Raffaele and the other boys trapped in the Roman reformatory are watching a newsreel of the war in the Pacific. Raffaele (Aniello Mele) looks up at the screen with glowing eyes. He sees not the war scenes but the sea of his
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