Naked Childhood
1968 · Movie · 83 min. · France
A ten-year-old boy feels unwanted when his mother places him in a home for wayward children. He goes to a foster home where a family of workers finds him to be too much for them. When the unruly child discovers the family plans to give up on him, he kills their daughter's cat in retaliation. He is sent to another home where he is cared for by an elderly couple. The boy takes to the wife's elderly mother, who reaches out to the disturbed boy. His deliberate disobedience lessens somewhat in his new environment, but he is arrested after throwing bolts at cars from a bridge. The boy tries to overcome his mother's rejection and struggles to boost his self-image in this childhood drama.
Direction Maurice Pialat
Cast Michel Terrazon · Raoul Billerey · Maurice Coussonneau · Pierrette Deplanque · Linda Gutemberg · Marie Marc · Henri Puff · Marie-Louise Thierry · René Thierry
Screenplay Maurice Pialat · Arlette Langmann
Cinematography Claude Beausoleil
Original title L'Enfance nue
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399 votes (FilmAffinity)
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