Produzenten/Producers André Hunebelle, Paul Cadéac Regie/Director Claude Berri Buch/Script Claude Berri, Gérard Brach, Michel Rivelin Kamera/DoP Jean Penzer Ton/Sound Jean Labussière Schnitt/Editors Denise Charvein, Sophie Coussein Musik/Music Georges Delerue DarstellerInnen/Cast Michel Simon (Pepe), Alain Cohen (Claude Langmann), Charles Denner (Claudes Vater/Claude's Father), Luce Fabiole (Mèmè), Roger Carel (Victor), Paul Préboist (Maxime), Jacqueline Rouillard (Lehrerin/Teacher)

Spielfilm, sw., 35 mm, 90 Minuten, frz. OF, engl. UT
Feature Film, b&w, 35 mm, 90 min., French OV, English subtitles

Der achtjährige Claude lebt im von den Deutschen besetzten Paris. Als die
Lage für Juden immer schwieriger wird, schicken die Eltern den Buben 1944,
mit einer falschen Identität versehen, aufs Land, wo er bei einer katholischen
Familie Unterschlupf findet. Allmählich freundet sich Claude mit Pepe, dem
griesgrämigen und antisemitischen Hausherrn, an. Claude Berris erster
Spielfilm trägt autobiografische Züge, da er den Zweiten Weltkrieg in einem
Versteck überlebte.

Claude, a young Jewish boy living in Nazi-occupied Paris, is sent by his
parents to the countryside to live with an elderly Catholic couple. Forced to
hide his identity, the eight-year-old boy bonds with the irascible and anti-
Semitic Pepe, who soon becomes his friend and confidant. Claude Berri’s
film was hailed by François Truffaut as a film in the great humanist tradition
of Jean Renoir. "It took daring in 1967 for a young French director to make a
warmhearted comedy about wartime anti-Semitism, when the shame of his
country under German occupation was still fresh in people's memory. But
Claude Berri's first feature, The Two of Us – based upon his own experiences
as a hidden Jewish child in France during World War II (…) - also owes its
wild charm to two brilliant performers." (New York Times)

Am 17. Nov. in Anwesenheit des Regisseurs Claude Berri.
On Nov. 17th, Director Claude Berri will be in attendance.

Sa 17.11. 22:30 Burg Kino
Di 20.11. 18:00 Metro