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The Children Are Watching Us (1943)

NR Oct 27, 1943 Drama 1h 24m
User Score
76%
85 votes
Internet Movie Database
77%

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 Sica
Director
Adolfo Franci
Screenplay
Gherardo Gherardi
Screenplay
Cesare Giulio Viola
Screenplay

Top Billed Cast

Emilio Cigoli
Emilio Cigoli

Andrea
Luciano De Ambrosis
Luciano De Ambrosis

Pricò
Isa Pola
Isa Pola

Nina
Adriano Rimoldi
Adriano Rimoldi

Roberto
Giovanna Cigoli
Giovanna Cigoli

Agnese
Jone Frigerio
Jone Frigerio

La nonna
Maria Gardena
Maria Gardena

Sig.ra Uberti
Dina Perbellini
Dina Perbellini

Zia Berelli
Nicoletta Parodi
Nicoletta Parodi

Giuliana

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Reviews

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A review by Probiatos
Written on January 14, 2014

In typical De Sica fashion, it ends on a rather cynical note (and it has this dismal undercurrent throughout), but its bleak and honest message is unfortunately obscured and smothered by the rather schmaltzy acting and uneven script. De Sica is widely recognized as of the leading filmmakers that broke through 'filmic norms', so to speak, by hiring non-professional actors as a way to convey a level of authenticity and realness that are often indistinct in most other films. Especially those that deal with the ideas of economic hardship, a collapse in social order, and the dilapidation of post-WWII Europe. It worked impeccably in "Bicycle Thieves" and "Umberto. D", two of De Sica's most prominent work, but ultimately failed here....

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