Synopsis
A little boy “hatches” a scheme to save a chicken from becoming his family’s Sunday dinner, by pretending that he is in fact laying eggs...
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- Executive Producer : Renn Productions
Full credits (5)
- Screenwriter : Claude Berri
- Director of Photography : Ghislain Cloquet
- Music Composer : René Urtreger
- Editor : Sophie Coussein
- Producer : Claude Berri
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Themes : Childhood
- Production language : French
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French
- Production year : 1963
- Runtime : 15 min
- Visa number : 27612
- Visa issue date : 11/03/1963
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Black & White
- Audio format : Mono
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Best Live Action Short - 1965 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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