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Forbidden Games is a french film of genre Drama directed by René Clément released in USA on 7 december 1952 with Georges Poujouly
Forbidden Games (1952)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 7 december 1952
Length 1h26
Directed by René Clément
OriginFrance
Themes French war films, Films about children, L'enfance marginalisée, Political films, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Rating79%
Forbidden Games (French: Jeux interdits), is a 1952 French war drama film directed by René Clément and based on François Boyer's novel, Jeux interdits.
While not initially successful in France, the film was a hit elsewhere. It won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, a Special Award as Best Foreign Language Film in the United States, and a Best Film from any Source at the British Academy Film Awards.
Synopsis
It is June 1940, during the Battle of France. After five-year-old Paulette's parents and pet dog die in a German air attack on a column of refugees fleeing Paris, the traumatized child meets 10-year-old Michel Dollé whose peasant family takes her in. She quickly becomes attached to Michel. The two attempt to cope with the death and destruction that surrounds them by secretly building a small cemetery among the ruins of an abandoned watermill, where they bury her dog and start to bury other animals, marking their graves with crosses stolen from a local graveyard, including one belonging to Michel's brother. Michel's father first suspects that Michel's brother's cross was stolen from the graveyard by his neighbour. Eventually, the father finds out that Michel has stolen the cross.Actors
Georges Poujouly
(Michel Dolle)
Brigitte Fossey
(Paulette)
Laurence Badie
(Berthe Dolle)
Jacques Marin
(Georges Dolle)
Madeleine Barbulée
(Red Cross Nun)
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