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La Maison des bois

La Maison des bois

★ 7.2/10•1971•53m•TP•Drama•Comedy•War & Politics
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During the Great War, in a small rural French village far from the front, a gamekeeper and his wife take in children displaced by the war.

StatusEnded
Runtime53m
LanguageFR
First Air DateSep 12, 1971

Episodes

Episode 1 - Episode 1E156m

Episode 1

Gamekeeper Albert lives with his wife and their two children in the house in the woods. In 1917, they welcome three boys whose fathers had gone to the front. While not in school, children play war and hide in the forest.

Sep 12, 1971

Episode 2 - Episode 2E249m

Episode 2

The gendarmes investigate a thief who gleefully picks from the common reserve of the village. Hervé sympathises with the elegant Count, and has lunch in his castle.

Sep 19, 1971

Episode 3 - Episode 3E340m

Episode 3

A pleasant Sunday countryside party is organized by the inhabitants of the house of the woods. This lull is disturbed by serious news: Marcel, one of Hervé's two companions, is called to the front.

Sep 26, 1971

Episode 4 - Episode 4E455m

Episode 4

A garrison stops near the village and the children see real soldiers for the first time. One offers his baptism to Hervé, who is overjoyed. But death is never far from the village and a plane crashes nearby.

Oct 3, 1971

Episode 5 - Episode 5E556m

Episode 5

Hervé's father visits his son for the first time in a year. The reunion is timid and infinitely happy. But the boy soon receives tragic news.

Oct 10, 1971

Episode 6 - Episode 6E660m

Episode 6

The armistice has arrived, and the children participate in a party before leaving the house in the woods forever. Hervé finds his father in Paris and discovers his new 'mother' and his half-sister Brigitte, with whom he will now live.

Oct 17, 1971

Episode 7 - Episode 7E761m

Episode 7

While Parisian life seems very boring to Hervé, 'Papa Jacques' the gamekeeper, pays a surprise visit. His wife is very sick and he is desperate. Hervé decides to run away to go to her and see the house in the woods one last time.

Oct 24, 1971

Actors

Pierre Doris

Pierre Doris

Albert Picard

Jacqueline Dufranne

Jacqueline Dufranne

Jeanne Picard

Agathe Natanson

Agathe Natanson

Marguerite Picard

Hervé Lévy

Hervé Gardy

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