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Forbidden Games (DVD, 2013)

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Rene Clement directs this moving, multi-award winning wartime drama. Set in France in 1940, the story follows five-year-old Paulette (Brigitte Fossey), who is left traumatised after her parents and pet dog are killed in a Nazi air attack whilst fleeing Paris. She soon finds herself befriended by ten-year-old Michel Dolle (Georges Poujouly), however, whose peasant family takes her in. As Paulette and Michel become best friends, they find a way of coping with the death and destruction that surrounds them by creating their own world, and in particular, a small cemetery in the ruins of an old barn, where they bury Paulette's dog, and any other dead animals and insects they find.

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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.

Product Identifiers

ProducerRobert Dorfmann

EAN5055201820358

eBay Product ID (ePID)168170747

Product Key Features

ActorBrigitte Fossey, Jacques Marin

Film/TV TitleForbidden Games

DirectorRene Clement

LanguageFrench

Subtitle LanguageEnglish

Run Time120 Mins

Release Year2013

FormatDVD

FeaturesæInnocent Love Stories Under OccupationÆ û Interview with Brigitte Fossey, Laurence Badie and Historian Denitza Bancheva \Alternate opening and ending, With Subtitles

GenreDrama, General

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Certificate12A/12

Country/Region of ManufactureFrance

Additional InformationAdapted 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.

ReviewsFilm 4 - The French authorities hated it, but the film triumphed abroad and confirmed ClΘment, originally a documentarist, as a director of compassion and brilliance.

ScreenwriterRene Clement

Sound sourceDolby Digital

Movie/TV TitleForbidden Games

Consumer AdviceContains emotionally intense scenes and one use of moderate language