A Bag of Marbles
“Home Is Where Family Is”
At the beginning of the 1940s, in a France occupied by Nazi forces, lived the Jewish Joffo family. Happy and tight-knit, she sees her future darken when all members of the family are forced to wear the yellow star. Fearing the worst, the parents organized their family to flee to the free zone in the south of the country. Maurice, twelve years old, and Joseph, ten years old, will therefore leave alone in order to maximize their chances of finding their older brothers already settled in Nice. The brothers left to their own devices demonstrate an incredible amount of cleverness, courage, and ingenuity to escape the enemy invasion and to try to reunite their family once again.
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Cast
23 people
Dorian Le Clech
Joseph
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Lili Rose
Batyste Fleurial
Maurice
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Elsa Zylberstein
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Émile Berling
Raoul Mancelier
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Jocelyne Desverchère
Marcelle Mancelier
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Coline Leclère
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Christian Duguay Director · Benoît Guichard Screenplay Laurent Zeitoun Writer
Worldwide gross $11M · Budget $21M · First release January 18, 2017
Box office
Budget
$21,400,000
Worldwide gross
$10,898,998
Gross vs. budget
0.5×
Production
TF1 Films Production
Production
Forecast Pictures
Production
Main Journey
Production
Gaumont
Production
Quad Productions
Production
IDL Films
Production
Proximus
Production
Okko Production
Production
La Compagnie Cinématographique
Production
Panache Productions
Production
Quad Films
Production
Belgium · Canada · Czechia · France
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Un sac de billes
Original language
French
Spoken on screen
French · German · Russian · Yiddish
Release dates
France · January 18, 2017
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Austria
September 1, 2017 · Digital
Brazil
August 3, 2017 · Theatrical
Denmark
October 26, 2017 · Theatrical
Germany
August 17, 2017 · Theatrical
Greece
April 16, 2017 · Theatrical
Italy
January 18, 2018 · Theatrical
Netherlands
May 18, 2017 · Theatrical
September 1, 2017 · Physical · DVD
Slovakia
June 1, 2017 · Theatrical
Spain
December 29, 2017 · Theatrical
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