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Sans famille

1958 · 100 min

A gentle, old-fashioned tale of a boy and his animal companions wandering rural France, mixing hardship with warmth and simple adventure.

Overview
The Remi abandoned by his foster father sold to the troubadour Vasalis, in his living through the rural villages the people to entertain, gehoplen his three dogs and a monkey. In the beginning Remi takes its new master, but a demanding and hard man, and the animals have not been too much with the clumsy boy. But gradually creates a bond between Remi and his new comrades, until their friendship is suddenly disrupted when Vasalis is arrested for vagrancy and sentenced. Then Remi, alone in the world, along with his animal friends in position to try to keep ...

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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • upliftingstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • found family
  • survival
  • friendship
  • coming-of-age
  • isolation
Places
  • countryside
  • small town
Era
period
Audience
family
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour3
Realism7
Romance1
Tension3
Darkness4
Complexity3
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
adventure, family, comedy, drama
Directed by
André Michel
Written by
Pierre Véry, André Michel
Starring
Gino Cervi, Joël Flateau, Simone Renant, Paulette Dubost, Maurice Teynac, Bernard Blier, Pierre Brasseur, Marianne Oswald
Cinematography
Robert Juillard
Runtime
100 min
Country
France, Italy
Languages
French

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