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1960 French film From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wasteland (French: Terrain vague) is a 1960 French Drama film directed by Marcel Carné and starring Danielle Gaubert and Maurice Caffarelli. The story is loosely based on the novel Tomboy by Hal Ellson.
Wasteland | |
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Directed by | Marcel Carné |
Written by | Marcel Carné Henri-François Rey Hal Ellson (novel) |
Produced by | Louis Dolivet |
Starring | Danielle Gaubert Roland Lesaffre Maurice Caffarelli Constantin Andrieu Denise Vernac François Nocher |
Cinematography | Claude Renoir |
Edited by | Henri Rust Marguerite Renoir |
Music by | Michel Legrand Francis Lemarque |
Distributed by | Cinédis |
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Running time | 102 minutes |
Countries | France Italy |
Language | French |
Around a newly built HLM stretch wasteland and brownfield providing refuge to young people fleeing the unfathomable tedium of family life in the Paris suburbs. They share their secrets, the products of their thefts, submit to strict rituals. The sanctity of their revolt is highlighted by the initiation by jumping blindfolded and blood rite of passage. Dan, a beautiful young tomboy, rules the clan.
But the gang threatens increasingly sliding into serious crime, which is condemned by Dan and Lucky, a big brawler boy but who begins to consider an orderly life. Now they are ostracized along with the young Babar, accused of being a stool pigeon. Lucky, on the run, and Dan discover a mutual romantic inclination, while Babar, cruelly mistreated and humiliated, commits suicide.
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