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In France, zinema would say 10.

What it's about

During the German occupation of World War II, François, Eusèbe, and Lisa, three courageous children, embark on a secret adventure: resisting the Nazis in the heart of France. Through sabotage, hidden messages, and perilous escapes, they carry out clandestine actions right under the enemy's nose. Daring and friendship are their only weapons in the fight against injustice.

Why 10

• Our readingNot rated in the US. We say 10: Martin's death, the Gestapo threat and a hidden Jewish girl weigh more than violence told: at 10 alone, at 9 with an adult, the age of the comics' readers.
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• The war told, and a death that hits the villageFrom the start, people speak of planes firing on refugees and of the dead on the roads; then Martin, a young villager who was to marry in the spring, dies, and his loss runs through the film. A commemoration of a massacre, bodies glimpsed. Nothing bloody on screen, but death is there, spoken ten times.
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• Children taking real risksLisa sets off alone at night toward the German barges, François follows her, the three sabotage, hide, lie to soldiers. 'My father is friends with the Gestapo, I'd keep my head down if I were you': the threat also comes from classmates.
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• Gunfire, rifles and fightsTwenty seconds of gunfire, some fifty images of weapons held, fights between boys and a rough arrest. 'You want to shoot? Go on, shoot!' a man yells at a soldier.
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• A little girl alone and in hidingLisa, a Jewish refugee, passes as a cousin and lives in fear of being found out; many scenes of children alone in the dark, nights, cellars. An eight-year-old may need to be told why she is hiding.
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• Adults who smoke and drink, as in 1940Cigarettes and glasses of wine in kitchens and at the café, period backdrop, never put forward.
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What the movie brings

• Resisting at a child's height: leaflets, a sabotaged hill, a well-placed lie, and the discovery that courage is the size of the risks you take.
• The war seen from a village: occupation day to day, neighbors who keep quiet, those who talk, and what choosing costs.
• A true story from the comics: Les Enfants de la Résistance has been in bookshops and classrooms for ten years, and the film brings them to life without simplifying.

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