The Children Are Watching Us

Original title: I bambini ci guardano

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Four-year-old Pricò becomes the subject of emotional folly by his capricious parents and negligent relatives.Four-year-old Pricò becomes the subject of emotional folly by his capricious parents and negligent relatives.Four-year-old Pricò becomes the subject of emotional folly by his capricious parents and negligent relatives.

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7.7/10

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Trivia
Luciano De Ambrosis was chosen to play Prico because his mother died shortly before filming - which helped him to cry on command.

Quotes
La padrone della pensione: Let's confront this problem with the elevator once and for all. Let's say no more trips going down and be done with it.
[tenants rumble]
La padrone della pensione: Silence, please! Let's vote on it. One floor at a time. A majority carries it. First floor?
La signora Resta: I say it should go both up and down.

Connections
Featured in Fejezetek a film történetéböl: A neorealizmus (1990)

Soundtracks
Maramao perché sei morto?
Written by Mario Consiglio and Mario Panzeri
Performed by Maria Jottini & Trio Lescano

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The suffering of a child.

THE CHILDREN ARE WATCHING US might be our favorite De Sica film and one of our favorite Italian films of all time. It portrays with delicate sympathy the suffering of a child whose parents are separated because of the mother's love affair with another man. While the husband and wife are perfectly portrayed, by Emilio Cigoli and Isa Pola, the film belongs to little Luciano De Ambrosis as the five-year-old Prico'. His performance, which runs the gamut of joy, anguish, and sickly fear, staggers us. But of course it was director De Sica who was to work miracles later with the child actors of SHOE SHINE and THE BICYCLE THIEF. The conclusion to this heartbreaking film is no less unforgettable than those of De Sica's better-known masterpieces. It is one of the most indispensable of movies from Italy's fascist era. And it is shamefully unknown today.