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Synopsis
A girl of perhaps five or six is orphaned
in an air raid while fleeing a French city with her parents
early in World War II. She is befriended by a pre-adolescent
peasant boy after she wandered away from the other refugees,
and is taken in for a few weeks by his family. The children
become fast friends, and the film follows their attempt to
assimilate the deaths they both face, and the religious rituals
surrounding those deaths, through the construction of a cemetery
for all sorts of animals. Child-like and adult activity are
frequently at cross-purposes, however. Written by Doug Shafer
{dsshafer@uncc.edu}
In 1940, the five years old Paulette loses
her parents and her dog under a Nazi attack in the country
while escaping from Paris. The eleven years old peasant Michel
Dolle sees the girl wandering with her dead dog in her hands
and brings her to his home. She is welcomed and lodged by
his simple family and she becomes a close friend of Michel.
They bury her dog and decide to build a cemetery for animals
and insects, stealing crosses in the cemetery, bringing problems
to Michel's family with their neighbors. Written by Claudio
Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
A small girl fleeing the Nazi conquest of
Paris in 1940 with her family loses both of her parents and
her dog to a strafing attack. She is taken in by a nearby
peasant family and quickly develops a close friendship with
their son. When she buries the dog, the two of them decide
to create an entire animal cemetery and then go to great lengths
to obtain crosses for the graves. Written by Bob Rosen (See
here)
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