La Maison des bois

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  1. Episode 1

  54m

  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.

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  2. Episode 2

  48m

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

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  3. Episode 3

  40m

  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.

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  4. Episode 4

  53m

  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.

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  5. Episode 5

  53m

  Hervé's father visits his son for the first time in a year. The reunion is timid and infinitely happy. But the boy soon learns the news of the death of his companion Marcel.

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  6. Episode 6

  57m

  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.

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  7. Episode 7

  59m

  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.

Cast

Pierre Doris

Albert Picard

Jacqueline Dufranne

Jeanne Picard

Agathe Natanson

Marguerite Picard

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Hervé Lévy

Hervé Gardy