The Children Are Watching Us (1943)
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 as Andrea
- Luciano De Ambrosis as Pricò
- Isa Pola as Nina
- Adriano Rimoldi as Roberto
- Giovanna Cigoli as Agnese
- Jone Frigerio as La nonna
- Maria Gardena as Sig.ra Uberti
- Dina Perbellini as Zia Berelli
- Nicoletta Parodi as Giuliana
- Tecla Scarano as Sig.ra Resta