The Children Are Watching Us

The Children Are Watching Us (1943)

27/10/1943
Drama
1h 24m

A pulsating drama of childhood.

Overview

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.

  • Vittorio De SicaDirector, Screenplay
  • Adolfo FranciScreenplay
  • Gherardo GherardiScreenplay
  • Original Title

    I bambini ci guardano

  • Status

    Released

  • Original Language

    Italian

Keywords

  • innocence

Top Billed Cast

Emilio Cigoli

Emilio Cigoli

Andrea

Luciano De Ambrosis

Pricò

Isa Pola

Isa Pola

Nina

Adriano Rimoldi

Adriano Rimoldi

Roberto

Giovanna Cigoli

Agnese

Jone Frigerio

La nonna

Maria Gardena

Sig.ra Uberti

Dina Perbellini

Zia Berelli

Nicoletta Parodi

Giuliana

Tecla Scarano

Tecla Scarano

Sig.ra Resta

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