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Completed - FRENCH - Comedy - 100 minutes

Log Line

1960. The thrilling battles waged by a band of kids from two rival villages in the Southern France countryside.

Previous markets

  • Cannes 2011 (Debut)
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Year of production : 2011

Director(s) : Yann SAMUELL
Writer(s) : Yann SAMUELL
Cast : Eric ELMOSNINO, Mathilde SEIGNER, Frédéric TESTOT, Alain CHABAT

Producer(s) : Marc DU PONTAVICE (One World Films), Matthew GLEDHILL (One World Films)

Synopsis

A village in the South of France, 1960. A band of country boys aged 7 to 14, led by fearless young Lebrac, wages an uncompromising battle against their sworn rivals, the kids from the neighboring village. A war of honor and allegiance that's been kept alive for generations, in which humiliation is the most fearsome defeat and no tactic is too extreme, including attacking the enemy stark naked! With their newest recruit, the brave and ingenious tomboy called Lanterne, victory is a skipping stone's throw away. But it's not easy to be an army of half-pints and not get into trouble with Mom and Dad after coming home from battle with torn clothes and missing buttons!
Based on an internationally bestselling French novel, WAR OF THE BUTTONS is a tender, funny, poignant family comedy about the meaning of independence and solidarity, wars big and small, childhood, and coming of age.

Production

Country(ies) : FRANCE

Financing plan : TF1 Films production / TF1 Droits audiovisuels

CANADA A-Z FILMS (CANA
FRANCE TF1 VIDEO
GERMANY KOCH FILMS GMBH
SLOVENIA RTV SLOVENIJA
VENEZUELA BLANCO & TRAVIE

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