Les hauts murs 2008
Les hauts murs 2008
1h 32min | Drama | 30 April 2008 (France)
Storyline:
A young runaway rejects society’s condemnation and dares to fulfill his dreams. France, 1930s. 14-year-old orphan Yves Tréguier sees the world through the bars of “educational homes” where he is raised in conditions worthy of a penal colony, and dreams of a dramatic escape across the ocean to New York.
User review:
In 1932, In France, the fourteen year-old runaway orphan Yves Tréguier (Emile Berling) is sent to a reformatory after several attempts to travel to New York as stowaway in a ship. In the environment of prison, Tréguier is protected by the aspirant mechanic Blondeau (Guillaume Gouix) against the bully rascal Molina (Anthony Decadi) and befriends the upper-class teenager Marcel “Fil de fer” Morand (Julien Bouanich) that was sent to the institution by his stepfather and misses his mother (Carole Bouquet) and his piano. Tréquier unsuccessfully tries to escape from the brutal reform school and invites Blondeau to go with him, but the youngster has the promise of a job of mechanic for the next year and prefers to stay in the reformatory. However, Marcel is incapable to support the life conditions far from his beloved mother and commits suicide triggering a series of events that will force Blondeau to join Tréquier in his dream.
“Les Hautes Murs” is a drama based on a true story of French writer Auguste Le Breton, the pseudonym adopted by Yves Tréguier. The life conditions and brutality of the guards in this “education center” is impressive and the place is actually a school of crime, corruption and perverted sex. I love the speech of Fil de fer in the refectory when he says that children are not born to be criminal. In accordance with the information in the end of the film, this type of reformatory in France was shutdown only in 1979. The performances and the direction are top- notch. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): “Entre os Muros da Prisão” (“Within the Prison Walls”)
Director: Christian Faure
Writers: Albert Algoud, Christian Faure (screenplay)
Stars: Carole Bouquet, François Damiens, Emile Berling
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0922455/
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 700 MiB
Duration : 1h 31mn
Overall bit rate : 1 070 Kbps
The English subtitles are terrible but they’re the only ones available. This title is otherwise not available anywhere with English subs. The movie is worth watching despite the fractured English.
many of the movies are only in their native subtitles, and google translate to give some resemblence and understanding in english. If ANYONE has better subtitles, or subtitles for those movies that have none, please share. If you are able to translate for your country of origin to english – i am sure your help would be invaluable also. Or if you have the DVD with subtitles on, I am sure we can show you how to extract them also.. I use MKVToolnix, Subtitle Editor, Subrip, and Google2SRT as my main tools.
I’ve created much better ENG subs from a Spanish version! I’ll send them via mail….
Thank you, added!