Le vieil homme et l'enfant (1967)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.9/10   

Director:

Claude Berri

Escritores:

Claude Berri (writer)
Gérard Brach (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

19 febrero 1968 (USA)

Género:

Comedia | Drama

Plot:

Claude is a Jew. Because of the risks of an arrest (France is occupied by the Nazis), his parents send him away in the country...

Plot Keywords:

Nazi | France | Jew | Vichy | Young Boy

Premios:

4 wins & 1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Based, I believe, on Claude Berri's Personal Story

Reparto

Michel Simon	...	Pepe
Alain Cohen	...	Claude
Charles Denner	...	Claude's Father
Luce Fabiole	...	Mèmè
Roger Carel	...	Victor
Paul Préboist	...	Maxime
Jacqueline Rouillard	...	Teacher
Aline Bertrand	...	Raymonde
Sylvine Delannoy	...	Suzanne
Zorica Lozic	...	Claude's Mother
Marco Perrin	...	The Priest
Elisabeth Rey	...	Dinou, Maxime's daughter
Didier Perret	...	Dinou's brother
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Kinou	...	Le chien
Denise Péron

También conocida como:

Claude
The Old Man and the Boy
The Two of Us (USA)
El viejo y el niño (Spain) [es]

Duración:

90 min | USA:86 min

País:

France

Idioma:

Francés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

Finland:S | Sweden:15

Compañía:

P.A.C.

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en Le fantôme d'Henri Langlois (2004)

Based, I believe, on Claude Berri's Personal Story

This tale of a young Jewish boy sent into the French country side to avoid the possibility/likelihood of a round up of Jews by the Vichy Government parallels Claude Berri's personal experience, I believe. It says at the very beginning of the film that it is an experience seen in retrospect from the vantage point of the child. So, while it is sentimentalized as another commenter wrote on this site, that's what one might expect from a grown up looking back at the adventures of his eight or nine year old self. This is definitely NOT a straight forward narrative from an uninvolved scriptwriter/director. The "Grandfather" with whom the child is lodged hates Jews. He claims to be able to recognize them by their smell, their hooked noses, etc. The role of the Grandfather is brilliantly executed by Michel Simon. Filmed in the sixties in black and white, it still appears occasionally at Jewish film festivals under the title "The Two of Us." While you may despise the Grandfather's bigotry, he's also portrayed as loving toward the boy and lovable. The connection between the Grandfather and the boy, portrayed by Alain Cohen, is actually quite touching. A brief scene at the very end seems to indicate that the boy was reunited with his parents after the war but it passes by so quickly that I'd have to see it again in a stop frame to be sure that the faces of the parents are real and not imagined. Not a great movie, but definitely worth seeing.