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Jeux interdits (original title)
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A young French girl orphaned in a German air attack is befriended by the son of a poor farmer, and together they try to come to terms with the realities of death.
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Michel Dollé
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Paulette
Amédée ...
Francis Gouard
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Berthe Dollé
Madeleine Barbulée ...
Une soeur de la Croix-Rouge
Suzanne Courtal ...
Madame Dollé - la mère
Lucien Hubert ...
Joseph Dollé - le père
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Georges Dollé
Marcel Mérovée ...
Raymond Dollé (as Pierre Merovée)
Violette Monnier ...
Renée Dollé
Denise Péronne ...
Jeanne Gouard (as Denise Perronne)
Fernande Roy ...
L'autre fille Gouard
Louis Saintève ...
Le prêtre
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Gouard - le voisin
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
André Enard ...
Le premier gendarme (uncredited)
Marcelle Feuillade ...
La mère de Paulette (uncredited)
Roger Fossey ...
Le père de Paulette (uncredited)
Louis Herbert ...
Petit rôle (uncredited)
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Le deuxième gendarme (uncredited)
Annie Ravel ...
La cousine de Georges (uncredited)
Georges Sauval ...
Le conducteur de la charrette (uncredited)
Maud Slover ...
Une dame au centre des réfugiés (uncredited)
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La vieille dame dans la charrette (uncredited)

Directed by

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René Clément

Written by

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François Boyer ... (novel)
 
Jean Aurenche ... (screen adaptation) and
Pierre Bost ... (screen adaptation) and
René Clément ... (screen adaptation)
 
Pierre Bost ... (dialogue) and
Jean Aurenche ... (dialogue) and
François Boyer ... (dialogue)

Produced by

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Robert Dorfmann ... producer

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Robert Juillard ... director of photography

Editing by

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Roger Dwyre

Editorial Department

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Françoise Javet ... assistant editor (as F. Javet)

Art Direction by

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Paul Bertrand

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Majo Brandley ... (uncredited)

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Paule Déan ... makeup artist (as P. Dean)

Production Management

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Paul Joly ... production manager
André Rameau ... unit manager (as A. Rameau)
Georges Testard ... unit production manager (as G. Testard)

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René Albouze ... assistant exteriors director (as R. Albouze)
Claude Clément ... first assistant director
Léonard Keigel ... second assistant director (as L. Keigel)
Pierre Kast ... assistant director (uncredited)

Art Department

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René Albouze ... assistant property master (as R. Albouze)
Clément Hurel ... poster artist
Eugène Roman ... assistant art director (as E. Roman)
Robert Turlure ... property master (as R. Turlure)
René Calviera ... assistant art director (uncredited)

Sound Department

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Jacques Lebreton ... sound
R. Moreau ... assistant sound
P. Rubin ... assistant sound

Camera and Electrical Department

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Daniel Diot ... camera operator (as D. Diot)
Bob Pater ... camera operator
J. Robin ... camera operator
Robert Tomatis ... still photographer (as Tomatis)

Location Management

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Robert Turlure ... location manager (as R. Turlure)

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Narciso Yepes ... interpretation / musical adaptation

Script and Continuity Department

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Yvette Vérité ... script girl (as Y. Vérité)

Additional Crew

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Léo Spohr ... production administrator (uncredited)
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Plot Summary

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

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Taglines War...and how it affects the lives of our children See more »
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Also Known As
  • The Secret Game (South Africa, English title)
  • Forbidden Games (Canada, English title)
  • Forbidden Games (United States)
  • Forbidden Games (World-wide, English title)
  • The Secret Game (United Kingdom)
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Trivia In a television interview ("Vivement Dimanche Prochain", France 2, 17 April 2005) Brigitte Fossey, who played the little Paulette, revealed that the film had originally been shot as a short, and then it was later decided to extend it into a feature film. Unfortunately she had lost her milk teeth and Georges Poujouly (who plays the boy Michel) had had his hair cut to play in We Are All Murderers (1952). So, in many scenes of the movie Paulette has false teeth and Michel is wearing a wig. See more »
Goofs The poor parents are killed by a Focke-Wulf 190. This kind of plane didn't exist at the moment of the "battle of France" in May and June 1940. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Film présenté: Jeux interdits (1959). See more »
Crazy Credits There are two alternate opening credits:The main credit starts with a story book and a female hand opens the book to reveal the credits. The alternate still has the same book but this time we are introduced to the two main characters who are sitting by a lake. In this version, Michel's hand is turning the page and in between the scenes he tells Paulette that he's going to tell a story. See more »
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