Forbidden Games
(1952)
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Forbidden Games
(1952)
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| Georges Poujouly | ... |
Michel Dolle
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| Brigitte Fossey | ... |
Paulette
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Amédée | ... |
Francis Gouard
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Laurence Badie | ... |
Berthe Dolle
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Madeleine Barbulée | ... |
Red Cross Nun (end of film)
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Suzanne Courtal | ... |
Madame Dolle
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Lucien Hubert | ... |
Dolle, the Father
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Jacques Marin | ... |
Georges Dolle
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Violette Monnier |
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Denise Péronne | ... |
Jeanne Gouard
(as Denise Perronne)
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Fernande Roy |
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Louis Saintève | ... |
Priest
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André Wasley | ... |
Gouard, the Father
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Marcel Mérovée | ... |
Raymond Dollé
(as Pierre Mérovée)
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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. Written by Doug Shafer <dsshafer@uncc.edu>
This is very nearly a perfect film. There have been many films about children, but few are strong enough to allow for innocence and honesty to co-exist. Jeux Interdits (Forbidden Games) makes no such compromises. Hollywood would have traded a happy (and phony) ending for poignancy. Beautiful cinematography.