The Children Are Watching Us (1943)

"The Children Are Watching Us" is a 1943 Drama movie directed by Cesare Giulio Viola and starring by Emilio Cigoli, Luciano De Ambrosis. 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.