Les enfants du placard (1977)

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1h 45min
Drama
12 Oct 1977 (France)
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Nicolas has an appointment with his sister Juliette. They are bound by a heavy secret of childhood: their mother committed suicide while their father had charged Nicolas to keep her. Since then, the father has chased him out and has... See more »

Director:

Benoît Jacquot

Writer:

Benoît Jacquot

Stars:

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1 nomination.
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Still of Brigitte Fossey and Georges Marchal in Closet Children (1977)

Still of Isabelle Weingarten in Closet Children (1977)

Still of Vincent Balvet and Sophie Baragnon in Closet Children (1977)

Still of Lou Castel and Brigitte Fossey in Closet Children (1977)

Still of Brigitte Fossey and Jean Sorel in Closet Children (1977)

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	Brigitte Fossey	...	Juliette
	Lou Castel	...	Nicola
	Jean Sorel	...	Berlu
	Georges Marchal	...	Le père
	Christian Rist	...	Julien
	Isabelle Weingarten	...	Laure
	Hassane Fall	...	Diop
	Sophie Baragnon	...	Juliette enfant
	Vincent Balvet	...	Nicolas enfant
	Danièle Gégauff	...	La mère (as Danièle Rosencranz)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
	Martine Simonet	...	Prostituée

Directed by

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Benoît Jacquot

Written by

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Benoît Jacquot

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Produced by

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Michel Chanderli

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executive producer

Cinematography by

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Pierre Lhomme

Editing by

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Fanette Simonet

Production Design by

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Raoul Albert

Makeup Department

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Paul Le Marinel

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makeup designer

Production Management

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Stella Quef

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production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

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Jacques Tronel

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assistant director

Camera and Electrical Department

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Jean-Yves Delbreuve	...	camera operator
Jacques Renard	...	assistant camera

Script and Continuity Department

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Geneviève Dufour

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script supervisor

Production Companies

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G.M.F. Productions

Distributors

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MK2 Diffusion (1977) (France) (theatrical)
Artificial Eye (1978) (United Kingdom) (subtitled)

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Storyline

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Plot Summary	Nicolas has an appointment with his sister Juliette. They are bound by a heavy secret of childhood: their mother committed suicide while their father had charged Nicolas to keep her. Since then, the father has chased him out and has forbidden Juliette to see Nicolas again. Plot Summary
Plot Keywords	70's child-protagonist loneliness french existential-crisis See All (68) »
Genres	Drama
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Certification	France:Tous publics

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Also Known As	Closet Children (World-wide, English title) Die verschworenen Kinder (West Germany) Dzieci z ogłoszenia (Poland)
Runtime	105 min
Country	France
Language	French
Color	Color (Eastmancolor)
Sound Mix	Mono

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Trivia

Nicola (Lou Castel) bears the psychological scars of unbearable guilt. As a boy, he was given the job of looking after his mentally unstable mother and protecting her from herself. One day, he and his sister went instead into a large closet and enacted a childishly intensive "I dare you" bonding ritual, marking one another with the blade of their father's sword cane. While he was occupied in this manner, the boy's mother hung herself and died. Now an adult, he still has an unhealthily strong fixation on his sister. This is so obvious that a girlfriend of his sister's, with whom he has an affair, breaks it off, complaining that she is not interested in being a stand-in for the sister. See more »

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