The Children Are Watching Us 1944  N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: The Little Martyr
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Cast: Emilio Cigoli, Luciano De Ambrosis, Isa Pola, Adriano Rimoldi, Giovanna Cigoli, Jone Frigerio, Maria Gardena, Dina Perbellini, Nicoletta Parodi, Tecla Scarano
This story about a young mother (Isa Pola) deserting her husband (Emilio Cigoli) and four-year-old son (Luciano De Ambrosis) and running off with her lover (Adriano Rimoldi) is often told through the young son's perspective as he reacts to his mother's relationship with a man he really does not know.
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Shoeshine 1946  N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Cast: Franco Interlenghi, Rinaldo Smordoni, Annielo Mele, Bruno Ortenzi, Pacifico Astrologo, Francesco DeNicola, Antonio Carlino, Enrico DeSilva, Emilio Cigoli, Antonio Lo Nigro
With a cast of non-professional actors, Vittorio DeSica and collaborator/screenwriter Cesare Zavattini have put together a powerful story of everyday life. Two shoeshine boys (Franco Interlenghi and Rinaldo Smordoni) hustle American soldiers to have their shoes shined. The orphaned boys dream of making a better life in war-torn, post-World War II Rome and have saved much of their money. But their dreams are shattered after they are talked into a shady deal and end up in a bleak reformatory.
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| 1. The Children Are Watching Us (1944)
aka: The Little Martyr
2. Shoeshine (1946)
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