Stand by · pulling the latest frames
Stand by · pulling the latest frames


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.
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“A pulsating drama of childhood.”
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Giovanna Cigoli
Giovanna Cigoli
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