''Fanny's Journey'' (original title: ''Le Voyage de Fanny'') is a 2016 French-Belgian
children's war
War is an armed conflict between the armed forces of states, or between governmental forces and armed groups that are organized under a certain command structure and have the capacity to sustain military operations, or between such organi ...
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...
co-written and directed by
Lola Doillon. The film is inspired by the autobiographical memoir ''Le journal de Fanny'' by
Fanny Ben-Ami.
Plot
During WWII, a group of French Jewish children, who had been sheltered in
Vichy France
Vichy France (; 10 July 1940 – 9 August 1944), officially the French State ('), was a French rump state headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II, established as a result of the French capitulation after the Battle of France, ...
by the Jewish charity
Å’uvre de secours aux enfants for three years, must flee to
Italian occupied France when the Germans
occupy Vichy France and again to neutral Switzerland after the Germans occupy the Italian zone following
Italy's armistice with the Allies, leaving their family and teachers behind.
Cast
* Léonie Souchaud as Fanny
* Fantine Harduin as Erika
* Juliane Lepoureau as Georgette
* Ryan Brodie as Victor
* Anaïs Meiringer as Diane
* Lou Lambrecht as Rachel
* Igor van Dessel as Maurice
* Malonn Lévana as Marie
* Lucien Khoury as Jacques
*
Cécile de France
Cécile or Cecile is a female given name or surname.
People Given name
* Ce'cile (Cecile Charlton, born 1976), Jamaican musician
* Severin Cecile Abega (1955–2008), Cameroonian author
* Cécile Aubry (1928–2010), retired French film actres ...
as Madame Forman
*
Stéphane De Groodt as Jean
* Elea Körner as Helga
* Alice D'Hauwe as Ethel
* Jérémie Petrus as Julien
Reception
''Variety'' described it as "a handsome, compelling period piece that deftly portrays events through the eyes of its young protagonists."
Awards
The film won the Best Narrative Audience Award at the
Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival CineMondays, and the Best Narrative Audience Award at the
Atlanta Jewish Film Festival in 2017.
References
External links
* , record of official website
* {{IMDb title, 5038372
Cineuropa
2016 films
2016 war drama films
2010s children's drama films
2010s French-language films
French war drama films
French children's films
Belgian war drama films
French World War II films
Films about children
Films based on non-fiction books
Films directed by Lola Doillon
Films set in France
Films set in the Alps
Films set in 1943
Films about the French Resistance
Vichy France in fiction
Holocaust films
Drama films based on actual events
World War II films based on actual events
2010s French films
Belgian World War II films
French-language Belgian films
2010s Belgian films
French-language war drama films