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Michel et sa mère vivent seuls dans la banlieue parisienne en 1919. Ils sont victimes des sarcasmes des voisins car le père de Michel, mort à la guerre, a été fusillé « pour l’exemple » durant les mutineries de 17. Un soir où la hargne des voisins dégénère, la mère de Michel est internée dans un asile d’aliénés et Michel est placé dans un orphelinat religieux.

Fall Out (1996)
86 min
This film is an adaptation of Jean Amila's novel Le Boucher des Hurlus. The story, set in the aftermath of the war, is about Michel, a young man orphaned in this manner. He lives with his mother until she collapses under the wave of vituperation from the women in her community, who consider her murdered husband to have been a traitor. When he is sent to an orphanage, he discovers that many of the children in it are there for the same reason he is. Michel decides to escape his captivity and kill the general who ordered his father's death. He and the other children like him are able to get away from the orphanage, in the course of their journeys, they tour the grim battlefields of the recent war. Together, they return to Paris, determined to exact their revenge.