An initially harmless but escalating conflict between gangs of French schoolkids mirrors the war around them in this handsome, WWII-set adaptation of Louis Pergaud’s popular, oft-filmed novel.

1960, a village in the south of France. A gang of boys, aged 7 to 14 and led by intrepid Lebrac, is at war with the kids of the neighboring village, their sworn enemies. A merciless war that has ...

Boys from neighboring French villages engage in an elaborate, playful game of war in which the victors take the buttons from the clothes of the losers.

Yvette Etiévant (1922–2003) was a French actress. She starred in Yves Robert's War of the Buttons (La Guerre des boutons) in 1962. Source: Article "Yvette Etiévant" from Wikipedia in English, licensed ...

Robert Rollis (16 March 1921 - 6 November 2007) was a French actor. He mainly starred as a film actor, but also appeared in television and also in theatre in the 1950s and early 1960s. Amongst many ...