A Child in the Crowd
Un enfant dans la foule
Director: Gérard Blain
Country: France
1976 | 85 min. | French
Subtitles: German
Cast_ César Chauveau, Claude Cernay, Annie Kovaks, Bernard Soufflet Screenplay_ Gérard Blain, Michel Pérez Camera_ Emmanuel Machuel Producer_ Gérard Blain, Claude Berri Rights_ Paul Blain
Drawing from his own experiences, Gérard Blain tells of growing up in occupied France. A forgotten masterpiece of French cinema.
When he started out as an actor in the early films of François Truffaut and Claude Chabrol, Gérard Blain was considered the "French James Dean". In 1970, he began directing his own films. His third work ›Un enfant dans la foule‹, made in 1976, is set in France during the Second World War. The young Paul is on his own. His parents are absent, along with all ordinary aspects of everyday life. In occupied Paris, he meets German soldiers, for whom he procures cigarettes before joining the Resistance. Blain shows us a harsh world. One, however, where time and again tender moments of compassion arise. ›Un enfant dans la foule‹ was the great discovery of last year's retrospective, which couldn’t take place, so it will be screened this year.
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Screenings
- Sunday 14.11.202118:00MannheimMACinema Quadrat
- Wednesday 17.11.202120:15HeidelbergHDKarlstorkino