The Children Are Watching Us (1943)
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.
Director:
Vittorio De Sica
Writers:
Adolfo Franci, Gherardo Gherardi, Cesare Giulio Viola, Margherita Maglione, Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica.
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Emilio Cigoli as Andrea |
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Luciano De Ambrosis as Pricò |
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Isa Pola as Nina |
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Adriano Rimoldi as Roberto |
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Giovanna Cigoli as Agnese |
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Jone Frigerio as La nonna |
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Maria Gardena as Sig.ra Uberti |
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Dina Perbellini as Zia Berelli |
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Nicoletta Parodi as Giuliana |
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Tecla Scarano as Sig.ra Resta |
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Ernesto Calindri as Claudio |
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Olinto Cristina as Il rettore |
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Mario Gallina as Dottore |
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Zaira La Fratta as Paolina |
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Armando Migliari as Il commendatore |
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Guido Morisi as Gigi Sbarlani |
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Giulio Alfieri as |
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Vasco Creti as |
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Augusto Di Giovanni as |
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Agnese Dubbini as |
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Riccardo Fellini as |
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Aristide Garbini as |
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Luigi Garrone as |
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Rita Livesi as |
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Achille Majeroni as |
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Lina Marengo as |
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Claudia Marti as |
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Giovanna Ralli as |
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Carlo Ranieri as |
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Alfredo Salvatori as |
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Gino Viotti as |
| Directing | Vittorio De Sica | Director |
| Writing | Cesare Giulio Viola | Novel |
| Writing | Adolfo Franci | Screenplay |
| Writing | Gherardo Gherardi | Screenplay |
| Art | Vittorio Valentini | Production Design |
| Art | Amleto Bonetti | Art Direction |
| Writing | Cesare Giulio Viola | Screenplay |
| Sound | Renzo Rossellini | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Giuseppe Caracciolo | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Romolo Garroni | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Mario Bonotti | Editor |
| Production | Franco Magli | Production Manager |
| Production | Ermete Tamberlani | Production Supervisor |
| Directing | Luisa Alessandri | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Paolo Moffa | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Lidia C. Ripandelli | Assistant Director |
| Writing | Margherita Maglione | Screenplay |
| Writing | Cesare Zavattini | Screenplay |
| Writing | Vittorio De Sica | Screenplay |
| Sound | Tullo Parmegiani | Sound |
| Art | Guido Fiorini | Set Decoration |
| Art | Gastone Medin | Set Decoration |