The Children Are Watching Us:
A Movement Is Born
By March 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 »
- 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
| Andrea | Emilio Cigoli |
| Pricò | Luciano De Ambrosis |
| Nina | Isa Pola |
| Roberto | Adriano Rimoldi |
| Agnese | Giovanna Cigoli |
Credits
| Director | Vittorio De Sica |
| Producer | Franco Magli |
| Screenplay | Vittorio De Sica, Cesare Giulio Viola, Gherardo Gherardi, Adolfo Franci, Cesare Zavattini and Margherita Maglione |
| From the novel by | Cesare Giulio Viola |
| Cinematography | Giuseppe Caracciolo |
| Editing | Mario Bonotti |
| Music | Renzo 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
