Forbidden Games 1952

World War II. Five-year-old Paulette’s parents are killed in an air raid, and she is reluctantly taken in by a peasant family. Paulette befriends her foster parents’ 11-year-old son, Michel. The children create a secret world out of the death they see all around them. Collecting the carcasses of animals and insects, they perform sacred rituals over them and then bury them in an abandoned barn...