Forbidden Games (1952) on Netflix
Orphaned by a German air attack on the refugee column from Paris, five-year-old Paulette is taken in by the family of Michel Dollé. The children start a secret animal graveyard.
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Plot summary
It is June 1940, during the Battle of France. Paulette, a girl of five, is among the refugees leaving Paris when German aircraft attack the column; her parents and her dog are killed. She wanders off alone and meets Michel Dollé, the ten-year-old son of a peasant family that takes her in for a few weeks. The two become close friends. Both children are surrounded by death, and they try to make sense of it by burying animals in a hidden graveyard they build in a disused watermill, marking each small grave with a cross. Their private ritual keeps running against the world of the adults who shelter them.
Cast
- Philippe de Chériseyas Francis Gouard
- Suzanne Courtalas Madame Dolle
- Pierre Merovéeas Raymond Dolle
- Violette Monnieras Dolle's Youngest Daughter
- Fernande Royas Gouard's Other Daughter
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- Louis Saintèveas Priest
- Marcel Mérovéeas Raymond Dollé (as Pierre Mérovée)
- André Enardas Le premier gendarme (uncredited)
- Marcelle Feuilladeas La mère de Paulette (uncredited)
- Roger Fosseyas Le père de Paulette (uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Forbidden Games (1952)
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- Forbidden Games was entered in competition at the 13th Venice International Film Festival, but organizers at first ruled it ineligible because it had already been screened at Cannes; it then won the festival's highest prize, the Golden Lion.
- At the 1952 Cannes Film Festival, Forbidden Games was not France's official entry and instead screened on the fringe of the Competition, drawing what the article describes as "howling protests" from critics.
