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Four-year-old Pricò becomes the subject of emotional folly by his capricious parents and negligent relatives.Four-year-old Pricò becomes the subject of emotional folly by his capricious parents and negligent relatives.Four-year-old Pricò becomes the subject of emotional folly by his capricious parents and negligent relatives.
Jone Frigerio
- La nonna
- (as Ione Frigerio)
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Did you know
- TriviaLuciano De Ambrosis was chosen to play Prico because his mother died shortly before filming - which helped him to cry on command.
- Quotes
La padrone della pensione: Let's confront this problem with the elevator once and for all. Let's say no more trips going down and be done with it.
[tenants rumble]
La padrone della pensione: Silence, please! Let's vote on it. One floor at a time. A majority carries it. First floor?
La signora Resta: I say it should go both up and down.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Fejezetek a film történetéböl: A neorealizmus (1990)
- SoundtracksMaramao perché sei morto?
Written by Mario Consiglio and Mario Panzeri
Performed by Maria Jottini & Trio Lescano
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The Beginning of It All
A four-year old boy, Pricò, becomes the subject of emotional folly by his fluctuant parents and inattentive relatives.
Peter Brunette notes, "The Children Are Watching Us marks the first full blossoming of one of the most fruitful collaborations in world cinema history. The brilliant pairing of legendary Italian actor and hitherto commercial director Vittorio DeSica with Cesare Zavattini, the talented screenwriter who was to become the chief theorist of the neorealist movement that flourished in Italy right after World War II, created a synergy of magnificent proportions, which allowed each man to transcend his own individual limitations." So, Brunette might be a little flowery with his prose, but he is spot on. Regardless of whatever internal qualities this film has, good or bad, it is historically significant because of its place at the beginning of DeSica's career. This may be his least-known film, or at least one of the lesser known, but without it there would never have been "Bicycle Thieves", "Umberto D", or much of anything else. This really is the birth of the neo-realist movement that defined Italy for a generation.
Peter Brunette notes, "The Children Are Watching Us marks the first full blossoming of one of the most fruitful collaborations in world cinema history. The brilliant pairing of legendary Italian actor and hitherto commercial director Vittorio DeSica with Cesare Zavattini, the talented screenwriter who was to become the chief theorist of the neorealist movement that flourished in Italy right after World War II, created a synergy of magnificent proportions, which allowed each man to transcend his own individual limitations." So, Brunette might be a little flowery with his prose, but he is spot on. Regardless of whatever internal qualities this film has, good or bad, it is historically significant because of its place at the beginning of DeSica's career. This may be his least-known film, or at least one of the lesser known, but without it there would never have been "Bicycle Thieves", "Umberto D", or much of anything else. This really is the birth of the neo-realist movement that defined Italy for a generation.
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- gavin6942
- Aug 10, 2016
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- Runtime1 hour 24 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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