“The French Resistance came in all shapes and sizes.”
War of the Buttons
6.0
476 votes·2011
·1h 40m
·MovieAdventureFamily
Overview
Occupied France; Lebrac leads a play war between two rival kid gangs, but a girl he likes, who's Jewish, is in danger of being discovered by local Nazi sympathisers. Lebrac and the village must now respond to the reality of what's happening.
Keywords
based on novel or bookremakebuttonwar context1940soccupied france (1940-44)children in wartime
Cast
Jean Texier
Lebrac
Clément Godefroy
Petit Bibus
Théophile Baquet
Grand Gibus
Louis Dussol
Bacaillé, mayor's kid
Harold Werner
La Crique, smart kid
Nathan Parent
Camus
Ilona Bachelier
Violette
Thomas Goldberg
L'Aztec
Laetitia Casta
Simone
Guillaume Canet
L'instituteur
Kad Merad
Père Lebrac
Gérard Jugnot
Père l'Aztec
Marie Bunel
Mère Lebrac
François Morel
Père Bacallé
Grégory Gatignol
Brochard
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