Original Title: Jeux interdits
Year: 1952
Genre:
Drama, War
Category: Movie
IMDB Rating: 8 (NEVAZUT)
Country: France
Language:
Director: René Clément
Writer: Jean Aurenche, Pierre Bost, François Boyer, René Clément
Composer: Narciso Yepes
Producer: Robert Dorfmann
Actors: Georges Poujouly, Brigitte Fossey, Amédée, Laurence Badie, Madeleine Barbulée, Suzanne Courtal, Lucien Hubert, Jacques Marin, Violette Monnier, Denise Péronne, Fernande Roy, Louis Saintève, André Wasley, Marcel Mérovée, André Enard, Marcelle Feuillade, Monsieur Fossey, Louis Herbert, Bernard Musson, Annie Ravel, Georges Sauval, Maud Slover, Janine Zorelli
Description: 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.
Comments: One of the first films to see the horrors of war through the eyes of children, Forbidden Games was a critical smash, winning prizes from the New York Film Critics, the British Academy, and the Venice Film Festival. Adapted by Francois Boyer, director Rene Clement, and two others from Boyer's novel, the story focuses on Paulette (Brigitte Fossey), a five-year-old refugee from Paris taken in by a peasant family after her parents are killed during a bombardment of a civilian convoy. Michel Dolle (Georges Pujouly), the family's 11-year-old son, becomes her best friend, and they create a cemetery in which Paulette's dog is interred, along with other animals and insects, some of whom the children kill themselves. The Dolle family is too busy feuding with the Gouards, their neighbors, to notice the absence of the children. Eventually, authorities locate Paulette and insist that she be placed in an orphanage for legal adoption. Unsentimental and yet heartbreaking, Forbidden Games demonstrates the strategies of children who witness war to deal with the constant presence of death. It's also a bitter condemnation of the selfishness of adults who could offer their charges more love and protection. — Tom Wiener
Duration: 86 minutes (at 25 frames per second)
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Filesize: 696 MB
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Subtitles: English, Serbian