The Children Are Watching Us (1943)
I bambini ci guardano
A pulsating drama of childhood.
84 min
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.
- Release date
- October 27, 1943
- Country of origin
- Italy
- Music
- Renzo Rossellini
Where to watch
Subscription
Criterion Channel
Cast
- Emilio Cigoli as Andrea
- Luciano De Ambrosis as Pricò
- Isa Pola as Nina
- Adriano Rimoldi as Roberto
- Giovanna Cigoli as Agnese
- Jone Frigerio as La nonna
- Maria Gardena as Sig.ra Uberti
- Tecla Scarano as Sig.ra Resta
- Ernesto Calindri as Claudio
- Olinto Cristina as Il rettore
- Mario Gallina as Dottore
- Armando Migliari as Il commendatore
- Guido Morisi as Gigi Sbarlani
- Giulio Alfieri
- Vasco Creti
- Augusto Di Giovanni
- Agnese Dubbini
- Riccardo Fellini
- Aristide Garbini
- Rita Livesi
- Achille Majeroni
- Lina Marengo
- Giovanna Ralli
- Carlo Ranieri
- Alfredo Salvatori
- Dina Perbellini as Zia Berelli
- Nicoletta Parodi as Giuliana
Crew
- Vittorio De Sica · Director
- Cesare Giulio Viola · Writer
- Margherita Maglione · Writer
- Cesare Zavattini · Writer
- Adolfo Franci · Writer
- Renzo Rossellini · Composer
- Mario Bonotti · Editor
- Amleto Bonetti · Production designer