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Title War of the Buttons (Movie 1994) / Director: Roberts, John
Published Australia : SBS World Movies [broadcaster], 2020 July 08 at 15:30:00
[Place of production not identified] : [Production company not identified], 1995
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Description 1 online resource (streaming video file) (1 hr. 44 min. 53 sec.) ; bytes
Summary Adaptation of Louis Pergaud's classic 1912 novel about the rivalry between the children from two villages. Set in the South of France in the 1960s against the distant backdrop of the Algerian War, a gang of boys aged 7 to 14, led by the intrepid Lebrac, are at war with the kids of the neighbouring township, their sworn enemies. In this uncompromising battle of honour and allegiances that has been kept alive for generations, humiliation is the most fearsome defeat and no tactic is too extreme, even if it necessitates fighting naked or accepting the help offered by Lanterne - a girl! She is the gang's new recruit, a tomboy full of panache and ingenuity, and it seems victory could now just be a stone's throw away. It's not easy to wage war without getting caught by your parents
Notes Closed captioning in English
Classification PG ACMA
Subject Children -- Behavior.
Film adaptations.
Humiliation.
Nudity in motion pictures.
Revolution (Algeria : 1954-1962)
Tomboys.
United States.
Great Britain.
Genre/Form Drama
Form Streaming video
Author Roberts, John, director
Cleere, John, actor
Coffey, John, actor
Crowley, John, actor
Cunningham, Anthony, actor
Dannell-Foran, Stuart, actor
Fitzgerald, Gregg, actor
Kavanagh, Thomas, actor
Kearney, Gerard, actor
McNamara, Brendan, actor
McNamara, Yvonne, actor
Naughton, Darragh, actor
O'Leary, Helen, actor
O'Malley, Kevin, actor
Ryan, Eveanna, actor
Tuite, Danielle, actor