{"id":927,"date":"2018-01-29T00:59:53","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T00:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?page_id=927"},"modified":"2026-02-21T03:51:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T03:51:38","slug":"a-bag-of-marbles","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/2022-winners\/awards-2\/a-bag-of-marbles\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bag of Marbles"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A BAG OF MARBLES\u00a0<\/strong>\/ Un sac de billes<\/em><\/h2>\n[\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1517187381878{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]North American Premiere \u2022 Drama \u2022 France, 2017
\n<\/strong>DCP \u2022 2.35 \u2022 Dolby 5.1 \u2022 Color \u2022 110 min
\nDirected by<\/strong>: Christian Duguay
\nWritten by<\/strong>: Alexandra Geismar, Jonathan Allouche, Beno\u00eet Guichard, Christian Duguay, Laurent Zeitoun
\nBased on the book by:\u00a0<\/strong>Joseph Joffo and Claude Klotz
\nCinematography<\/strong>: Christophe Graillot
\nFilm Editing<\/strong>: Olivier Gagan
\nOriginal Score<\/strong>: Armand Amar
\nProduced by<\/strong>: Nicolas Duval Adassovsky, Yann Zenou, Laurent Zeitoun (Yume \u2013 Quad Films), Gaetan Davis (La Compagnie Cin\u00e9matographique), TF1 Films Productions, Gaumont.
\nCast<\/strong>:\u00a0Dorian Le Clech<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>(Joseph),\u00a0Batyste Fleurial<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>(Maurice),\u00a0Patrick Bruel<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>(Roman),\u00a0Elsa Zylberstein<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>(Anna),\u00a0Bernard Campan<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>(Ambroise Mancelier), Kev Adam\u00a0(<\/strong>Ferdinand)
\nInternational Sales<\/strong>: Gaumont<\/p>\n

This heartwarming adaptation of Joseph Joffo\u2019s enduring memoir tells the story of the Nazi occupation through the eyes of two young Jewish boys struggling to survive on their own. Paris, 1941: Joseph and Maurice are the sons of Roman, the local barber. At 10 and 12, the boys have so little understanding of the persecution of Jews that Joseph thinks nothing of swapping his yellow star for a bag of marbles. Despite their naivet\u00e9, Roman knows that their best chance to escape the Nazi roundup is to flee on their own to Vichy France, where their older brothers Albert and Henri have found safe haven. Always one false move from tragedy, these tenacious urchins survive on courage, ingenuity and more than a bit of cunning as they make their precarious way through France hoping to reunite with their family. More than anything, it\u2019s their brotherly bond that gets them through their ordeals. Patrick Bruel resonates as the Jewish family patriarch Roman, while newcomers Dorian Le Clech and Batyste Fleurial register an almost agonizing vulnerability as hapless innocents trying to outrun the barbarous machinery of war.<\/p>\n

When it comes to choosing subject matters for his films, writer\/director\u00a0Christian Duguay<\/strong>\u00a0isn\u2019t easily intimidated. After all, Joseph Joffo\u2019s widely admired holocaust autobiography has sold more than 20 million copies over the years. On top of that, the book has been adapted once before, by the brilliant auteur Jacques Doillon in 1975, a film now regarded as an early masterpiece. But Duguay felt that the story still had enough untapped potential to warrant a version that more faithfully followed the book. \u00a0Duguay was last represented at COLCOA in 2013 with his popular\u00a0Jappeloup,<\/em>\u00a0about a friendship between a man and his miraculous show-jumping horse. A French Canadian, Duguay first made his mark directing Emmy and Golden Globe-winning television miniseries.\u00a0 His transition to the big screen began with genre films in Hollywood, including\u00a0The Assignment<\/em>\u00a0(1997), starring Donald Sutherland and Ben Kingsley, and the Wesley Snipes actioner\u00a0The Art of War\u00a0<\/em>(2000). Duguay pivoted to drama with the acclaimed miniseries\u00a0Hitler, The Rise of Evil<\/em>\u00a0(2003), and\u00a0Coco Chanel<\/em>\u00a0(2008), starring Shirley MacLaine and Malcolm McDowell.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][mk_image src=”http:\/\/www.theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/all_audiences.jpg” image_size=”full”][mk_image src=”http:\/\/www.theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/un-sac-de-billes-1.jpg” image_size=”full” margin_bottom=”10″][mk_image heading_title=”In Association with” src=”http:\/\/www.theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/gaumont-200.jpg” image_size=”full” margin_bottom=”10″][mk_image src=”http:\/\/www.theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/unifrance-1-copy-e1517432403305.jpg” image_size=”full” margin_bottom=”10″][mk_image src=”http:\/\/www.theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/elma.jpg” image_size=”full” margin_bottom=”10″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1517960352898{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] A BAG OF MARBLES\u00a0\/ Un sac de billes [\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1517187381878{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]North American Premiere \u2022 Drama \u2022 France, 2017 DCP \u2022 2.35 \u2022 Dolby 5.1 \u2022 Color \u2022 110 min Directed by: Christian Duguay Written by: Alexandra Geismar, Jonathan Allouche, Beno\u00eet Guichard, Christian Duguay, Laurent Zeitoun Based on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":628,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-927","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26408,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/927\/revisions\/26408"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}