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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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