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A Year in my Life (Le temps des Porte-Plumes)

German title: Pippos neue Familie
Spain title: Un año en mi vida
Russian title: Время перьевых ручек
Original title: Le temps des Porte-Plumes

Alternative titles:
The Time of the Pen-Holder | Една година от живота ми

Youth drama – France
Production year: 2005
Movie length: 94 minutes

Director: Daniel Duval
Writer: Daniel Duval, Elie Meirovitz
Cinematograph: Claude Garnier
Music: Vladimir Cosma

Movie description:

Pippo is a hard-pressed and angry boy who has lived with a father and mother who care not at all about him or much else besides the bottle. When his parents are arrested, he is taken into care, and soon sent to a childless couple in the French countryside in the mid-1950s. Pippo finds it very hard to adapt and doesn’t trust what loving spirit is present in the home. He gets into continual trouble at school, and has a mysterious project he is working on with a local witch ...

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