The Two of Us

Original title: Le vieil homme et l'enfant

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In German-occupied France, a Jewish child is sent away from his family and conceals his religious affiliation from the anti-Semitic elderly man that takes care of him.In German-occupied France, a Jewish child is sent away from his family and conceals his religious affiliation from the anti-Semitic elderly man that takes care of him.In German-occupied France, a Jewish child is sent away from his family and conceals his religious affiliation from the anti-Semitic elderly man that takes care of him.

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7.6/10

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Awards
- 5 wins & 2 nominations

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Michel Simon

Pépé Dupont

Roger Carel

Victor

Paul Préboist

Maxime

Luce Fabiole

Mémé Dupont

Aline Bertrand

Raymonde

Sylvine Delannoy

Suzanne

Zorica Lozic

Madame Langmann

Jacqueline Rouillard

L'institutrice

Marco Perrin

Le curé

Denise Péron

Elisabeth Rey

La petite Dinou
(as La petite Elisabeth Rey)

Didier Perret

Le petit frère de Dinou
(as Le petit Didier Perret)

Kinou

Le chien
(as Le chien Kinou)

Alain Cohen

Claude Langmann

Charles Denner

Monsieur Langmann

Yves Boussus

L'homme dans le magasin de jouets
(uncredited)

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Trivia
In Paris director Claude Berri was born Claude Berel Langmann to Eastern European Jewish immigrant parents, on July 1, 1934, making him 9 years old in November, 1943. But in the first line of the film Claude Langmann says as an adult in a voiceover "In November, 1943, I was 8 years old." Alain Cohen, who played the boy in the film, was age 8 during the 3 month film shoot that started in July, 1966, which is probably why "8 years old" was used. Like the boy in the film, Claude Berri was sent away during the occupation of Paris to live with a non-Jewish family and his name was changed to be more "French."

Goofs
When Claude joins a wooden-sword fight while the Langmann family is living in Dijon, a flag containing a swastika is hanging from a building in the background (at 0:08:51 on the Cohen Film Collection BD; at 0:09:01 on the Criterion Collection DVD). Most viewers would assume that the only swastika flag allowed to be flown on dry land in German occupied France would be the German national flag (1920-1945) containing (on both sides) a right-facing swastika rotated to a 45 degree angle from vertical on a white circle in a red background. The flag shown in the film has a left facing swastika whose arms are aligned with vertical and horizontal.

Connections
Featured in Le fantôme d'Henri Langlois (2004)

Soundtracks
Maréchal, nous Voilà !
Music by André Montagard and Charles Courtioux
Lyrics by André Montagard

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9/10

A young child uses logic to challenge the prejudices of an old man

This movie shows the power of the media in shaping the minds of simple folk, filling them with irrational prejudices. This shaping is what leads to the rise of totalitarian governments and to Islamic fascism. The best way to fight this, is to have the chance to live with and directly influence, by subtly challenging these prejudices with reason and logic. But the logician, in this case was a nine year old boy who lives in the country with an elderly couple as a way of surviving the final years of Nazi occupied France. The movie is very touching and meaningful. Filmed in black and white, which gives the movies a war time feel. The on-screen relationship between the old man and the young boy, which helps each to grow, is what good story telling is all about.