Underplayed Gems

Avoir été (1979)

Avoir été poster
Directed by
Roland-Bernard
Country
France
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

Near the end of World War II, a boy is left behind when his boarding school evacuates during the Liberation of France. He ends up taken in by a widowed war veteran living in a Paris suburb. The story follows their unlikely bond.

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What happens

Avoir été est un téléfilm français en 3 parties de réalisé par Roland-Bernard et diffusé en sur TF1. À la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, les combats de la Libération obligent le directeur d'un pensionnat normand à évacuer précipitamment l'institution. Un groupe de pensionnaires se cache pour s'échapper et est finalement abandonné là. Patrick, un enfant de , décidé à aller à Paris, s'embarque dans un camion allemand. Il est finalement recueilli par Kléber Demartin, un ancien combattant de la grande guerre, veuf et sans enfant, qui habite en banlieue parisienne, au Plessis-Belle-Isle, rue de la libre Pensée. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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