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Behind the Walls (2008)

Behind the Walls (2008)

Les hauts murs
91 minutes FR Drama
A young runaway rejects society's condemnation and dares to fulfill his dreams. France, 1930s. 14-year-old orphan Yves Tréguier sees the world through the bars of "educational homes" where he is raised in conditions worthy of a penal colony, and dreams of a dramatic escape across the ocean to New York.
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Émile Berling
Yves Tréguier
Carole Bouquet
Fil de fer's Mother
Michel Jonasz
Director - Institution of Supervised Education
Julien Bouanich
Fil de fer
Finnegan Oldfield
The Stutterer
François Damiens
The Chief Supervisor
Production companies: Septembre Productions, CinéCinéma
Production countries: France

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