Country:France, 86 minutes
Spoken languages:French
Genres:Drama, War
Director(s):René Clément
Writer(s):
Video Codec:Unknown
Number: 217
Certification:Not Rated
Storyline:
A girl of perhaps five or six is orphaned in an air raid while fleeing a French city with her parents early in World War II. She is befriended by a pre-adolescent peasant boy after she wandered away from the other refugees, and is taken in for a few weeks by his family. The children become fast friends, and the film follows their attempt to assimilate the deaths they both face, and the religious rituals surrounding those deaths, through the construction of a cemetery for all sorts of animals. Child-like and adult activity are frequently at cross-purposes, however.
Cast:
Georges Poujouly (as Michel Dolle), Brigitte Fossey (as Paulette), Amédée (as Francis Gouard), Laurence Badie (as Berthe Dolle), Madeleine Barbulée (as Red Cross Nun, end of film)
Medium: Unknown,
Comments: 106-120
Loaned: No
Aspect ratio: 4:3