Forbidden Games (French: Jeux interdits), is a 1952 French-language film directed by René Clément and based on François Boyer's novel, Jeux interdits.
While not initially successful in France, the film was a hit elsewhere. It won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and is still one of the most popular French films in the US.[citation needed] The Criterion Collection released the film on DVD in 2005. The film had 4,910,835 theater admissions in France. [1]
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The film recounts the death of five-year-old Paulette's (Brigitte Fossey) parents and of her pet dog in a Nazi air attack on a column of refugees fleeing Paris, France during World War II. In the chaos, the traumatized child meets ten-year-old Michel Dollé (Georges Poujouly) whose peasant family take her in. She quickly becomes attached to Michel and the two attempt to cope with the death and destruction that surrounds them by secretly building a small cemetery where they bury her dog and then start to bury other animals, stealing crosses from the local graveyard including Michel's brother. Michel's father first suspects that Michel's brother's cross was stolen from the graveyard by his neighbour. Eventually, the father finds out that Michel has stolen the cross. Meanwhile, the French police come to the Dollé household in order to take Paulette. Michel cannot bear the thought of her leaving. Michel tells his father that he would tell him where the stolen crosses are, but in return he should not give Paulette to the police looking for her. His father doesn't keep his promise and Paulette ends up in a Red Cross camp, while Michel destroys the crosses.
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The soundtrack was composed by Narciso Yepes. It includes an arrangement of the tune Romance.
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