Yes the film recounts a real life tale of survival but the fate of its lead protagonists in no way diminishes the grueling hardships they face on every step of their journey.
A bag of marbles comments.
A bag of marbles un sac de billes is based on the best selling autobiographical novel by joseph joffo but here we aren t treated to the bleak battlefield often shown with such subject matter.
Instead by following the journey of inseparable brothers joseph and maurice we see 1940s france through the innocent eyes of a child.
Fleeing citizens jews and nazi resistors are roughly rounded up.
A bag of marbles by joseph joffo is a truly amazing story of how the author himself and his brother maurice travel throughout france and other parts of europe in 1941 to escape nazi capture.
The great value of christian duguay s a bag of marbles is the degree to which it makes such a barbaric and bewildering chapter in human history comprehensible for young audiences.
The beginning of the book starts off during what would seem to be any ordinary day for a ten year old boy who has just lost a game of marbles to his.
Some are shot and killed both in groups.