Forbidden Games (1952) ( Jeux interdits ) ( The Secret Game )

Forbidden Games (1952) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Jeux interdits
Alternate Title: The Secret Game
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Oscar Academy Awards
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
83 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Alternative Footage
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1952 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
René Clément

Written By:
Jean Aurenche

Actors:
Georges Poujouly ..... Michel Dolle
Brigitte Fossey ..... Paulette
Amédée ..... Francis Gouard
Laurence Badie ..... Berthe Dolle
Madeleine Barbulée ..... Red Cross Nun (end of film)
Suzanne Courtal ..... Madame Dolle
Lucien Hubert ..... Dolle, the Father
Jacques Marin ..... Georges Dolle
Pierre Merovée ..... Raymond Dolle
Violette Monnier ..... Jeanne Goua
Denise Péronne ..... Priest
Fernande Roy ..... Gouard, the Father
Louis Saintève
André Wasley

Synopsis:

Forbidden Games is a critically acclaimed 1952 French war film, directed by René Clément (Gervaise, And Hope To Die). 1940, Paulette (Brigitte Fossey), a young French girl is orphaned in a Nazi air attack during the battle of France. She is befriended by Michel (Georges Poujouly), the son of a poor farmer whose family take her in to their home to care for her. Together the two children forge a tight bond, attempting to come to terms with the realities of the death and destruction that surrounds them by creating their own reality, building their own small graveyard to bury dead animals they find. In this sealed universe they have created, Paulette and Michel live their experience and most wonderful love story.

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.

In 1940, the five years old Paulette loses her parents and her dog under a Nazi attack in the country while escaping from Paris. The eleven years old peasant Michel Dolle sees the girl wandering with her dead dog in her hands and brings her to his home. She is welcomed and lodged by his simple family and she becomes a close friend of Michel. They bury her dog and decide to build a cemetery for animals and insects, stealing crosses in the cemetery, bringing problems to Michel's family with their neighbors.

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