

The Children Are Watching Us
A pulsating drama of childhood.
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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- Language
- Italian
- innocence
- betrayal
- childhood
- motherhood
- abandonment
- melodrama
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United StatesUS
- TheatricalNR25 Apr 1947
ItalyIT
- Theatrical (limited)27 Oct 1943
- Theatricalhttps://www.criterion.com/current/posts/575-the-children-are-watching-us-a-movement-is-born27 Oct 1944
JapanJP
- TheatricalG16 Mar 1954
NetherlandsNL
- Physical12DVD26 Oct 2010
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The Children Are Watching Us was released on 27 October 1943.
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1/14/2014
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…
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