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Behind the walls (Les hauts murs)

Γερμανικά Τίτλος: Les hauts murs (Die hohen Mauern)
Ρωσική τίτλος: Высокие стены
Πρωτότυπος τίτλος: Les hauts murs

Jugenddrama – Frankreich
Έτος παραγωγής: 2006
Διάρκεια: 92 λεπτά

Σκηνοθεσία: Christian Faure
Σεναριογράφος: Albert Algoud, Christian Faure, Auguste Le Breton
Κάμερα: Jean-Claude Larrieu
Μουσική: Charles Court

Υπόθεση:

A young runaway rejects society’s condemnation and dares to fulfill his dreams. France, 1930s. 14-year-old orphan Yves Tréguier sees the world through the bars of educational homes where he is raised in conditions worthy of a penal colony, and dreams of a dramatic escape across the ocean to New York.
Drama based on Auguste Le Breton’s autobiographical novel about his teenage experiences at a brutal orphanage.

France, sometimes between the wars. After his father was killed in WWI, Yves Tréguier was adopted by the state and placed in the care of institutions and individuals that saw him more as a burden than a child. Aged 14, tired of being humiliated and locked up, Yves breaks out of his orphanage and goes on the run. He is soon recaptured by the authorities and ends up in a youth rehabilitation centre that is renowned for its harshness. Here, he must not only endure severe treatment by the staff, who treat him like a hardened criminal, but also victimisation by some of his fellow inmates. He also makes a few friends, including »Fil de FerÂ«, the abandoned son of a bourgeois family, who has a passion for music that infects his comrades. The soul-destroying routine and barbarity of this terrible establishment soon begins to erode Yves’s morale and he makes up his mind that he must escape, so that he can start a new life in America...

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