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A Bag of Marbles

2017 · 113 min

A tense but warm-hearted wartime journey that keeps you rooting for two brave brothers as they navigate danger and separation.

Tagline
Home Is Where Family Is
Overview
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.
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How it feels

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Tone
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • survival
  • family
  • war
  • coming-of-age
  • identity
Places
  • countryside
  • small town
  • road trip
Era
period
Audience
teen
Form
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action4
Horror2
Humour3
Realism8
Romance1
Tension6
Darkness6
Complexity4
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
war, drama
Directed by
Christian Duguay
Written by
Christian Duguay, Benoît Guichard, Laurent Zeitoun
Starring
Dorian Le Clech, Batyste Fleurial, Patrick Bruel, Elsa Zylberstein, Bernard Campan, Christian Clavier, Kev Adams, César Domboy
Cinematography
Christophe Graillot
Runtime
113 min
Country
Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, France
Languages
French, Yiddish, Russian, German

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