A 1970s French miniseries about rugby and boyhood that nobody remembers but everybody should.
Season 1 • Episode 3
LatestActing
Vlerick and Bideau's seamless adolescent-to-adult transition.
Direction
André Michel's patient, literary adaptation without prestige TV bloat.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kléber Haedens was a legendary sportswriter for L'Équipe; this was his only autobiographical work, essentially a love letter to pre-war French provincial life that television rarely attempted then.
The miniseries aired on ORTF in 1976 and essentially vanished; no official DVD release exists, making decent copies nearly mythological among French cinephiles.
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