Les Hauts murs
2008 Drama   
Director: Christian Faure
Starring: Carole Bouquet, François Damiens, Emile Berling, Pascal N’Zonzi, Michel Jonasz
 
Summary
For orphan Yves Tréguier, France of the 1930s is a bleak nightmare existence lived in soulless state institutions where he is subjected to the kind of humiliations and brutality that would break the spirit of an adult.  Aged 14, he manages to escape from an orphanage, but he is soon recaptured and sent to a youth rehabilitation centre, where he finds maltreatment at the hands of the staff but also comradeship in his fellow sufferers.  Though the walls of this terrible establishment are high, he is determined to breach them and fulfil his dream of starting a new life in the United States...

Credits
  • Director: Christian Faure
  • Script: Albert Algoud, Auguste Le Breton (novel)
  • Photo: Jean-Claude Larrieu
  • Music: Charles Court
  • Cast: Carole Bouquet (La mère de ’Fil de fer’), François Damiens (Le surveillant chef), Emile Berling (Yves Tréguier), Pascal N’Zonzi (Oudie), Michel Jonasz (Le directeur), Catherine Jacob (La directrice), Bernard Blancan (Le beau-père d’Yves), Guillaume Gouix (Blondeau), Anthony Decadi (Molina), Julien Bouanich (Fil de fer), Jonathan Reyes (Le Rat), Finnegan Oldfield (Le bégayeux), Simon Perret (Frigo), Antoine Chaleyssin (’L’Astucieux’), Oscar Baudot (Bras d’acier), Aurélien Godreau (Le Rouquin), Joël Pyrene (Boutard), André Penvern (M. Luve), Gérard Chaillou (Père Roux)
  • Country: France
  • Language: French
  • Runtime: 95 min



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