Pitchi-Poï ou La parole donnée (1967)
Overview
May 1944, in Provence, a young Jewish woman fleeing Nazi persecution, entrusts her three-month-old granddaughter to a stranger, Mathieu, a solitary shepherd who will raise her alone. Once the war is over, he will leave with her, in search of the mother. A research that will last more than twenty years and that will lead them to several European countries.
Cast
Georges Rouquier
Mathieu
Claude Marcault
The mother
Hermine Karagheuz
Rogation
Christiane Lénier
The employee of the Jewish organization
John Littleton
The black soldier
Rita Maiden
Rita
Jean Berger
The investigating judge
Dominique Zardi
A German soldier
Clément Bairam
First gendarme
Maurice Travail
Second gendarme
Yvonne Claudie
The old Jewess
Jacques Préboist
The farm boyRecommendations
Shepherds
Holy Lands
My Brothers and I
Juliette in Spring
My Neighbor Adolf
The Last Woman
The Sower
Kompromat
The Young One
Skin
My Little Princess
Élisa
The Passengers of the Night
The Dazzled
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
Violette
Young Mothers
The New Life of Paul Sneijder
Bastard Out of Carolina
Declaration of War