The children are watching us

Everyone who starts a journey to the big world can be called a child. Today our journey starts with cinema. “A child’s view on the world of adults” is not only a look from the outside but also a look from the inside. At the dawn of cinema development children started to appear on the screen. Time dictates its own rules. Thus the image of both adults and children are formed in the cinema in the state of the world crisis before and during the war. Our research starts from the analysis of the first child’s appearance on the screen of films where the main characters are children who entering the adult world and try to comprehend it. The paper studies films not limited by time and space. The object of analysis is foreign films from Italy France Germany Spain Great Britain the USA as well as Soviet-made films created over the course of a whole 20th century.