A Bag of Marbles (2017)

Original title

Un sac de billes

Directed by

Christian Duguay

Genre

drama film, war film

Country

Czech Republic, France, Canada

Runtime

1h 50m

Rated

12

Rating

7.8 of 10 from 906 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two young Jewish brothers try to survive in Nazi-occupied France. They must pretend to be non-Jewish to avoid capture and stay together.

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What happens

A Bag of Marbles (French: Un sac de billes) is a 2017 French drama film directed by Christian Duguay, based on the autobiographical novel A Bag of Marbles by Joseph Joffo. It is the second time the novel has been made into a film after Un sac de billes (1975). The film won the Best Narrative Audience Award at the Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival 37. The film was also a jury prize competitor at the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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