The Children Are Watching Us

Name: The Children Are Watching Us
Genre: Drama
Released: 1943-10-27
Duration: 1 h 24 min
Rating: 7.6
Cast: Emilio Cigoli, Luciano De Ambrosis, Isa Pola, Adriano Rimoldi, Giovanna Cigoli

October 27, 1943
Directed by
Vittorio De Sica

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.