7/9/2023 0 Comments A forbidden gameWhen his father doesn't keep his promise, Michel destroys the crosses by throwing them into the stream. Michel cannot bear the thought of her leaving and tells his father that he would tell him where the stolen crosses are, but in return he should not give Paulette to the gendarmes. Meanwhile, the French gendarmes come to the Dollé household in order to take Paulette. Eventually, the father finds out that Michel has stolen the cross. Michel's father first suspects that Michel's brother's cross was stolen from the graveyard by his neighbour. The two attempt to cope with the death and destruction that surrounds them by secretly building a small cemetery among the ruins of an abandoned watermill, where they bury her dog and start to bury other animals, marking their graves with crosses stolen from a local graveyard, including one belonging to Michel's brother. After five-year-old Paulette's parents and pet dog die in a German air attack on a column of refugees fleeing Paris, the traumatized child meets 10-year-old Michel Dollé whose peasant family takes her in. It is June 1940, during the Battle of France. It won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, a Special Award as Best Foreign Language Film in the United States, and a Best Film from any Source at the British Academy Film Awards. While not initially successful in France, the film was a hit elsewhere. Forbidden Games ( French: Jeux interdits) is a 1952 French war drama film directed by René Clément and based on François Boyer's novel Jeux Interdits.
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