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Forbidden Games

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Forbidden Games
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NR,1hr 30min
Genres:
Drama,War
Released:
January 1, 1952
Director:
René Clément
Distributor:
Times Film Corporation
Starring:
Brigitte Fossey, Georges Poujouly, Lucien Hubert  ...more
Synopsis: 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 ... Full Synopsis
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Tom Wiener, AMG Review
It should come as no surprise that filmmaker Rene Clement spent five years in search of financing for this unsparing look at the ravages of war on children. It's not that the violence in the film is so intense; even both of the story's young protagonists, Paulette and Michel Dolle, survive without a scratch. But the portrait Forbidden Games paints of its adult characters is unsparingly disdainful; ... Full Review
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Brigitte Fossey
Paulette
Georges Poujouly
Michel Dolle
Lucien Hubert
Dolle, the Father
Amedee
Francis Gouard
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