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Behind the Walls (2008)
Directed by Christian Faure
Drama · 1h 31m
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.
Cast
Émile Berling
Yves Tréguier
Carole Bouquet
Fil de fer's Mother
Catherine Jacob
Director
Michel Jonasz
Director - Institution of Supervised Education
Guillaume Gouix
Blondeau
Julien Bouanich
Fil de fer
Anthony Decadi
Molina
J
Jonathan Reyes
The Rat
Finnegan Oldfield
The Stutterer
S
Simon Perret
Frigo
François Damiens
The Chief Supervisor
Pascal N'Zonzi
Oudie
Crew
- Director
- Christian Faure
- Screenplay
- Christian Faure
- Writer
- Albert Algoud
- Novel
- Auguste Le Breton
- Editor
- Jean-Daniel Fernandez-Qundez
- Producer
- Pierre-Ange Le Pogam, Jean Nainchrik
Details
- Original title
- Les hauts murs
- Release date
- 2008-04-30
- Runtime
- 1h 31m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- French
- Countries
- France
- Production
- Septembre Productions, CinéCinéma