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Faces of Children

1925117 minFranceSwitzerland
Drama

Synopsis

After his mother's death, Jean struggles to accept his father's new marriage and the rearrangement of their Swiss mountain home. Objects, rooms and everyday decisions seem to erase the life he remembers. His resentment focuses on his stepsister, and an attempt to hurt her exposes both children to consequences far beyond the domestic rivalry.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: French.
This copy runs
116:45
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: French. No subtitle track in this language.

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Jacques Feyder · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsJacques Feyder

Behind the scenes

Feyder and Françoise Rosay developed the story around a child's grief without making the adults simple villains. Extensive Swiss location work connects the emotional conflict with the village's customs and the dangers of its surrounding landscape.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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