The Children Are Watching Us (1943)

Drama

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
L Luciano De Ambrosis
Claudio
Ernesto Calindri
Il rettore
Olinto Cristina
Dottore
M Mario Gallina
Paolina
Z Zaira La Fratta
Il commendatore
Armando Migliari
Gigi Sbarlani
G Guido Morisi
G Giulio Alfieri
Vasco Creti
Augusto Di Giovanni
Agnese Dubbini
Nina
Isa Pola
Riccardo Fellini
A Aristide Garbini
L Luigi Garrone
R Rita Livesi
Achille Majeroni
Lina Marengo
C Claudia Marti
Giovanna Ralli
C Carlo Ranieri
A Alfredo Salvatori
Roberto
Adriano Rimoldi
Gino Viotti
Agnese
G Giovanna Cigoli
La nonna
J Jone Frigerio
Sig.ra Uberti
M Maria Gardena
Zia Berelli
D Dina Perbellini
Giuliana
N Nicoletta Parodi
Sig.ra Resta
Tecla Scarano

Crew

Director
Vittorio De Sica
Novel
C Cesare Giulio Viola
Original Music Composer
Renzo Rossellini
Director of Photography
G Giuseppe Caracciolo
Director of Photography
R Romolo Garroni
Editor
M Mario Bonotti
Production Manager
F Franco Magli
Production Supervisor
E Ermete Tamberlani
Assistant Director
L Luisa Alessandri
Assistant Director
Paolo Moffa
Assistant Director
L Lidia C. Ripandelli
Screenplay
M Margherita Maglione
Screenplay
Cesare Zavattini
Screenplay
Vittorio De Sica
Screenplay
A Adolfo Franci
Screenplay
G Gherardo Gherardi
Production Design
V Vittorio Valentini
Art Direction
A Amleto Bonetti
Screenplay
C Cesare Giulio Viola
Sound
T Tullo Parmegiani
Set Decoration
G Guido Fiorini
Set Decoration
G Gastone Medin