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The Children Are Watching Us

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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.

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Emilio Cigoli

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Luciano De Ambrosis

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Isa Pola

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Adriano Rimoldi

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Giovanna Cigoli

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Jone Frigerio

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Maria Gardena

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Dina Perbellini

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Nicoletta Parodi

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Tecla Scarano

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Vittorio De Sica

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Cesare Giulio Viola

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Adolfo Franci

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Gherardo Gherardi

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Margherita Maglione

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Cesare Zavattini

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Vittorio De Sica

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