{"id":15312,"date":"2023-11-17T00:52:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T00:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?p=15312"},"modified":"2025-07-01T19:29:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T19:29:03","slug":"a-bag-of-marbles-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/a-bag-of-marbles-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A BAG OF MARBLES"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 data-wp-editing=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-15313\" src=\"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/a-bag-of-marbles_cover-250x350.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/a-bag-of-marbles_cover-250x350.jpeg 250w, https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/a-bag-of-marbles_cover-600x840.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/a-bag-of-marbles_cover.jpeg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #660084;\">A BAG OF MARBLES<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">| 2017 &#8211; 110&#8242; &#8211; Drama<br \/>\nWritten by: Alexandra Geismar, Jonathan Allouche, Beno\u00eet Guichard, Christian Duguay, Laurent Zeitoun.<br \/>\nBased on the novel by: Joseph Joffo.<br \/>\nDirected by: Christian Duguay.<br \/>\nStarring:\u00a0Dorian Le Clech,\u00a0Batyste Fleurial,\u00a0Patrick Bruel,\u00a0Elsa Zylberstein,\u00a0Bernard Campan, Kev Adam.<br \/>\nNorth American Premiere <strong>COLCOA 2017<\/strong>.<br \/>\nIn French, Yiddish, German and Russian with English subtitles.<br \/>\nA Film Movement release. |<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">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.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmmovement.com\/product\/a-bag-of-marbles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH NOW\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A BAG OF MARBLES | 2017 &#8211; 110&#8242; &#8211; Drama Written by: Alexandra Geismar, Jonathan Allouche, Beno\u00eet Guichard, Christian Duguay, Laurent Zeitoun. Based on the novel by: Joseph Joffo. Directed by: Christian Duguay. Starring:\u00a0Dorian Le Clech,\u00a0Batyste Fleurial,\u00a0Patrick Bruel,\u00a0Elsa Zylberstein,\u00a0Bernard Campan, Kev Adam. North American Premiere COLCOA 2017. 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