1944 | Italy | Fiction

I bambini ci guardano (The Children Are Watching Us)

  • Italian English 84 mins
  • Director | Vittorio De Sica
  • Writer | Vittorio De Sica, Cesare Giulio Viola, Gherardo Gherardi, Adolfo Franci, Cesare Zavattini, Margherita Maglione
  • Producer | Franco Magli

STATUS: Released

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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.

Innocence Betrayal Loss Family Trauma
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The Criterion Collection
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