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Bookmark this pageLe Vieil Homme et l'Enfant (1966)
Director: Claude Berri
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From Time Out Film Guide
Berri's fictionalised memoir - the Jewish child, Claude, billeted on a curmudgeonly old anti-Semite, was the director himself in the final months of the World War II Occupation - wears its heart stitched on to its sleeve like a Star of David. But, though compromised by the facility with which its glib antitheses (old age/childhood, country/city, Gentile/Jew) are reconciled by the (un)likely friendship of the ill-matched pair, the film's good humour and discretion, plus Simon's virtuoso performance, make it never less than watchable.Author: GAd
Cast & crew
Director: Claude Berri
Producer: Paul Cadéac
Cast: Michel Simon, Alain Cohen, Luce Fabiole, Roger Carel, Paul Préboist, Charles Denner full cast
Duration: 90 mins
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