La Petite bande (1983)
Directed by Michel Deville

Comedy / Adventure
aka: The Little Bunch

Film Synopsis

A group of young children, aged between seven and ten, have had enough of their boring, uneventful lives in England.  They have a taste for adventure, so with their modest stash of pocket money but no end of enthusiasm, they scramble across the English Channel in a pilot boat and are soon discovering the delights of la Belle France.  It isn't long before this happy band of boys and girls are making the most bizarre encounters, including a musical dog.  It seems they have arrived in a fantasy world where anything is possible.  The biggest surprise awaits them in a haunted castle lost in the depths of an enchanted forest.  Here, some incredibly nasty folk have invented a device that can force children to become grown-ups against their will.  How is our intrepid gang of heroes to escape this terrible fate?  The answer lies on a mysterious desert island...
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Film Credits

  • Director: Michel Deville
  • Script: Gilles Perrault
  • Cinematographer: Claude Lecomte
  • Music: Edgar Cosma
  • Cast: Andrew Chandler (Un enfant Anglais), Hélène Dassule (Un enfant Anglais), Nicole Palmer (Un enfant Anglais), Hamish Scrimgeour (Un enfant Anglais), Katherine Scrimgeour (Un enfant Anglais), Nicolas Sireau (Un enfant Anglais), Remi Usquin (Un enfant Anglais), Valerie Gauthier (Un enfant Anglais), Yveline Ailhaud (La tonnelière), Michel Amphoux (Le directeur du cirque), Roland Amstutz (Le Bavarois), Pierre Banderet (Le méchant père de famille), Jean-Pierre Bagot (L'homme à la voiture rouge), Nathalie Bécue (La Bavaroise), Liliane Bertrand (La femme à la voiture rouge), Jacques Canselier (Le psychiatre ficelé), Georges Carmier (L'éleveur de moutons), Marie-Pierre Casey (La dame allemande), Josine Comellas (La gardienne du centre médico-social), Dominique Constantin (La psychiatre rougissante)
  • Country: France
  • Language: -
  • Support: Color / Silent
  • Runtime: 91 min
  • Aka: The Little Bunch

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