France
1952
86 minutes
Black and White
1.33:1
French
318
A timeless evocation of childhood innocence corrupted, René Clément’s Forbidden Games tells the story of a young girl orphaned by war and the farm boy she joins in a fantastical world of macabre play. At once mythical and heartbreakingly real, this unique film features astonishing performances by its child stars and was honored with a special foreign language film Academy Award in 1952.
| Paulette | Brigitte Fossey |
| Michel Dollé | Georges Poujouly |
| Père Dollé | Lucien Hubert |
| Mère Dollé | Suzanne Courtal |
| Georges Dollé | Jacques Marin |
| Berthe Dollé | Laurence Badie |
| Père Gouard | André Wasley |
| Francis Gouard | Amédée |
| Director | René Clément |
| Screenplay | Jean Aurenche, Pierre Bost and François Boyer |
| Dialogue | René Clément, Jean Aurenche and Pierre Bost |
| Producer | Robert Dorfmann |
| Cinematography | Robert Juillard |
| Editing | Roger Dwyre |
| From the novel by | François Boyer |
| Art director | Paul Bertrand |
| Music | Narcisco Yepes |
| Sound | Jacques Lébreton |
Cinema is a photographic trace of life. For that reason, it’s also a perpetual witness to mortality. Georges Poujouly, the child actor who stars, with Brigitte Fossey, in René Clément’s 1952 masterpiece Forbidden Games, died in 2000, at the age of sixty. But as Michel, the rude . . .
Over the years countless films have been made about war, its horrors and its devastations. Few, however, have been as moving and heartfelt as René Clément’s Forbidden Games. The Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film in 1952, this deeply touching French drama has stirred . . .
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