Small Country: An African Childhood

2020

French

6.6

♡ 1

Action

burundi

Drama

Eric Barbier Director

Gérard Depardieu as Cyrano De Bergerac

Jean-Pierre Gos as Jacques

Veronika Varga as Madame Economopoulos

Jean-Paul Rouve as Michel Chappaz

Gabriel, aged 10, lives in a comfortable ex-pat neighborhood in Burundi, his ‘small country’. Gabriel is a normal kid, happy, carefree and having adventures with his friends and little sister. Then in 1993, tensions in neighboring Rwanda spill over, threatening his family and his innocence.

Promise at Dawn

2017

French

7.1

♡ 6

64%

85%

Action

based on memoir or autobiography

based on novel or book

Eric Barbier Director

Zoe Boyle as La poétesse

Catherine McCormack as Lesley Blanch

Charlotte Gainsbourg as Nina Kacew

Pierre Niney as Roman Kacew, dit Romain Gary

From his childhood in Poland to his adolescence in Nice to his years as a student in Paris and his tough training as a pilot during World War II, this tragi-comedy tells the romantic story of Romain Gary, one of the most famous French novelists and sole writer to have won the Goncourt Prize for French literature two times.

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Small Country: An African Childhood

Promise at Dawn