The Children Are Watching Us

Film Info

Italy
1944
84 minutes
Black and White
1.33:1
Italian
Spine #323

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

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

New cover by Sarah Habibi