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The Children Are Watching Us

Vittorio De Sica

 
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  • Italy
  • 1944
  • 84 minutes
  • Black and White
  • 1.33:1
  • Italian

SYNOPSIS: In his first collaboration with renowned screenwriter and longtime partner Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica examines the cataclysmic consequences of adult folly on an innocent child. Heralding the pair’s subsequent work on some of the masterpieces of Italian neorealism, The Children Are Watching Us is a vivid, deeply humane portrait of a family’s disintegration.

Cast & CreditsOpen

Cast

AndreaEmilio Cigoli
PricòLuciano De Ambrosis
NinaIsa Pola
RobertoAdriano Rimoldi
AgneseGiovanna Cigoli

Credits

DirectorVittorio De Sica
ProducerFranco Magli
ScreenplayVittorio De Sica, Cesare Giulio Viola, Gherardo Gherardi, Adolfo Franci, Cesare Zavattini and Margherita Maglione
From the novel byCesare Giulio Viola
CinematographyGiuseppe Caracciolo
EditingMario Bonotti
MusicRenzo Rossellini

Disc Features

  • New, restored high-definition digital transfer
  • New video interviews with star Luciano De Ambrosis and Vittorio De Sica scholar Callisto Cosulich
  • New and improved subtitle translation
  • A 24-page booklet featuring film scholar Peter Brunette, and critic Stuart Klawans on screenwriter Cesare Zavattini

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Film Essays

The Children Are Watching Us:
A Movement Is Born

By Peter BrunetteMarch 27, 2006

The Children Are Watching Us marks the first full blossoming of one of the most fruitful collaborations in world cinema history. The brilliant Read more »