Behind the Walls

Original title: Les hauts murs

91 minutes • 2008 • 6.3 Score

A young runaway rejects society's condemnation and dares to fulfill his dreams. France, 1930s. 14-year-old orphan Yves Tréguier sees the world through the bars of "educational homes" where he is raised in conditions worthy of a penal colony, and dreams of a dramatic escape across the ocean to New York.

Christian Faure

Director