The Last Time We Were Children (2023)
Rome, summer 1943. Four children play war while the bombs of real war explode around them. Italo is the rich son of the Federal, Cosimo has his father in confinement and an atavistic hunger, Vanda is an orphan and a believer, Riccardo comes from a wealthy Jewish family. They are different but they don't know it and between them "the greatest friendship in the world" is born, impervious to the divisions of history that bloodies Europe. But on October 16 the Jewish boy is taken away by the Germans together with over a thousand people from the Ghetto. Thanks to Italo's father Federale, the three friends believe they know where he is and, to honor the "spit pact", decide to leave in secret to convince the Germans to free their friend. Yet another imaginative mission becomes reality, the three children travel alone in an Italy exhausted by war, among disbanded soldiers, deserters, occupying German troops, exhausted and hungry populations.
Director:
Claudio Bisio
Writers:
Claudio Bisio, Fabio Bonifacci.
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Alessio Di Domenicantonio as Cosimo |
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Vincenzo Sebastiani as Italo |
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Carlotta De Leonardis as Vanda |
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Lorenzo McGovern Zaini as Riccardo |
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Federico Cesari as Vittorio |
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Marianna Fontana as Suor Agnese |
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Claudio Bisio as Federale |
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Antonello Fassari as Nonno Cosimo |
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Michel Berinucci as Guardia (voice) |
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Andrea Ferrante as Padre coppia orfanotrofio |
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Fabian Grutt as Sergente |
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Giancarlo Martini as Oste |
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Nikolai Selikovsky as Tenente |
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Daniel Terranegra as |
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Mia McGovern Zaini as |
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Ralph Palka as |
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Franco Pistoni as |
| Production | Luigi Napoleone | Producer |
| Editing | Luciana Pandolfelli | Editor |
| Sound | Pivio | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Aldo De Scalzi | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Claudio Bisio | Producer |
| Production | Sandra Bonzi | Producer |
| Production | Massimo Di Rocco | Producer |
| Production | Angelo Laudisa | Producer |
| Production | Chiara Polizzi | Casting |
| Directing | Leopoldo Pescatore | First Assistant Director |
| Writing | Fabio Bonifacci | Story |
| Sound | Umberto Montesanti | Sound |
| Writing | Claudio Bisio | Screenplay |
| Writing | Fabio Bonifacci | Screenplay |
| Art | Paola Comencini | Production Design |
| Camera | Italo Petriccione | Director of Photography |
| Costume & Make-Up | Beatrice Giannini | Costumer |
| Directing | Claudio Bisio | Director |
| Writing | Fabio Bartolomei | Novel |