The Children Are Watching Us (1943)

7.6/10 84 min Drama

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.

Cast

Emilio Cigoli

Andrea

Luciano De Ambrosis

Pricò

Isa Pola

Nina

Adriano Rimoldi

Roberto

Dina Perbellini

Zia Berelli

Tecla Scarano

Sig.ra Resta

Ernesto Calindri

Claudio

Olinto Cristina

Il rettore

Armando Migliari

Il commendatore

Vasco Creti

Augusto Di Giovanni

Agnese Dubbini

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