I bambini ci guardano
Subtitle: The children are watching us
By: Janus Films ; l'Associazione Amici di Vittorio De Sica presenta ; sceneggiatura, Cesare Giulio Viola, Margherita Maglione, Cesare Zavattini, Adolfo Franci, Gherardo Gherardi, Vittorio de Sica ; direttore di produzione, Franco Magli ; regia di Vittorio De Sica ; Cristaldifilm
Contributors: Cigoli, Emilio, 1909-1980, actor; De Ambrosis, Luciano, actor; Pola, Isa, 1909- actor; Rimoldi, Adriano, 1912-1965, actor; Caracciolo, Guiseppe, cinematographer; Rossellini, Renzo, 1908-1982, composer; Cosulich, Callisto, interviewee; Brunette, Peter, writer of accompanying material; Klawans, Stuart, writer of accompanying material; Janus Films; Associazione Amici di Vittorio De Sica; Cristaldifilm (Firm); Criterion Collection (Firm)
Edition: Edizione restaurata (2000).
Series: The Criterion collection -- 323; Criterion collection -- 323.
Published: 2006
Language: ita
Format: [videorecording] =
Number of pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9780780030138; 9781780030135
Subjects: Drama; Parent and child; Film adaptations; Families
Other titles: Children are watching us; Vittorio De Sica's The children are watching us
Description: A four-year-old boy is trapped in a loveless family with his suicidal father and his adulteress mother.
Notes: "Tratto dal romanzo Pricò, di Cesare Giulio Viola" [= Based on the novel Pricò by Cesare Giulio Viola] -- Opening credits.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1944.

Montaggio [= editing], Mario Bonotti ; musiche, Renzo Rossellini; [Cinematography, Guiseppe Caracciolo, Romolo Garroni].

Emilio Cigoli, Luciano de Ambrosis, Isa Pola, Adriano Rimoldi, Giovanna Cigoli, Ione Frigerio, Maria Gardena, Dina Perbellini, Nicoletta Parodi, Tecla Scarano, Ernesto Calindri, Olinto Cristina, Mario Gallina, Zaira la Fratta, Armando Migliari, Guido Morisi.

DVD; region 1, NTSC; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby digital mono.

Original feature film Copyright ©1944 Scalera Film / Invicta Film 1944 Scalera Film Invicta Film

Italian dialogue with optional English subtitles.
Table of contents: title: Special features: 2004 interview with star Luciano de Ambrosis (8 min.); title: 2004 interview with De Sica scholar Callisto Cosulich (9 min.) ; Enclosed booklet features essays by film scholar Peter Brunette and critic Stuart Klawans.