Drama | "Mobilisation générale"

Suitable for all audiences aged 12 and over / Running time: 1 hour 15 minutes
Concept, direction and set design: Eric Sanjou
Performed by: Mireille Belay - Annick Clerbout - Patricia Coudol - Denise Labbé - Françoise Lafforgue - Pascal Leroy - Agnès Poilvé

They are eleven, twelve, thirteen years old, and they tell the story of the war and the occupation, as they see it, as you experience it as a child.
Eighty years on, we are plunged with modesty into a period that continues to question us about human beings, about their rare strengths and their infinite cowardice, about the possibility of their baseness and their inclination to perpetrate the unspeakable.
No lessons, no judgments, just the facts told and played out with the innocence of those who do not fully understand the actions of adults. Those who watch this great horrific carnival and are carried away by a flood of sensations, images and sounds; who retain only snatches of this terrible reality.
They play with the truthfulness of children who dress up, play the clown, the party and the war with the same sincerity.
They are sometimes comical, often funny, but they do not shy away from violence and tears. It's a kick up the arse of a rancid, narrow-minded France, a Petainist France, an anti-Semitic France, a collaborator France.
The old joyous tunes of the time come back in counterpoint... It's insane what people were able to sing under the occupation while they were being deported!

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