A Bag of Marbles
“Home Is Where Family Is”
2017•12•1h 53m•7.8•Released
WarDrama
At the beginning of the 1940s, in a France occupied by Nazi forces, lived the Jewish Joffo family. Happy and tight-knit, she sees her future darken when all members of the family are forced to wear the yellow star. Fearing the worst, the parents organized their family to flee to the free zone in the south of the country. Maurice, twelve years old, and Joseph, ten years old, will therefore leave alone in order to maximize their chances of finding their older brothers already settled in Nice. The brothers left to their own devices demonstrate an incredible amount of cleverness, courage, and ingenuity to escape the enemy invasion and to try to reunite their family once again.
Director
Christian Duguay
Writer
Benoît Guichard, Christian Duguay, Laurent Zeitoun
Budget
$21M
Revenue
$11M
Languages
French, Yiddish, Russian
Studio
TF1 Films Production
Cast
Dorian Le Clech
Joseph
Batyste Fleurial
Maurice
Patrick Bruel
Roman
Elsa Zylberstein
Anna
Bernard Campan
Ambroise Mancelier
Christian Clavier
Docteur Rosen
Kev Adams
Ferdinand
César Domboy
Henri
Ilian Bergala
Albert
Émile Berling
Raoul Mancelier
Jocelyne Desverchère
Marcelle Mancelier
Coline Leclère
Françoise
Holger Daemgen
Alois Brunner
Fred Epaud
Le curé Buffa
Michaël Erpelding
Raymond
Production
Company
TF1 Films Production
Company
Forecast Pictures
Company
Main Journey
Company
Gaumont
Company
Quad Productions
Company
IDL Films
Company
Proximus
Company
Okko Production
Company
La Compagnie Cinématographique
Company
Panache Productions
Producer
Joe Iacono
Producer
Nicolas Duval Adassovsky
Producer
Yann Zenou
Producer
Laurent Zeitoun
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