Home Sweet Home (1973 film)

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name = Home Sweet Home


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director = Benoît Lamy
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starring = Claude Jade
Jacques Perrin
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released = 1973
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country = Belgian
language = French
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imdb_id = 0173904

"Home Sweet home" is a Belgian film directed by Benoît Lamy in 1973, starring Claude Jade, Jacques Perrin, Marcel Josz, Ann Petersen, Jacques Lippe, Elise Mertens and Jane Meuris.

It won 14 awards at festivals in Moscow, Montreal, Budapest, Teheran...

Plot

It all began on the day when a new boarder, Flore (Jane Meuris), arrived on the scene. Flore considers the home as a hotel. Jules (Marcel Josz), surprised by her comes to life. And disaster follows… The management steps in: Claire (Claude Jade), the nurse has a love-affair, Jacques (Jacques Perrin), the social worker, highly considered by the old folks, is sacked. Now the town, which has a stake in the home, takes drastic measures: the chief of police (Jacques Lippe) assists the manager (Ann Petersen) with loving care. Home Sainte-Marguerite is running amok. It all happens in a flash: the mutiny, the fire on the fourth floor, the fire brigade, the panic...

The protagonists of this film are elderly person people who in a tehuis of Brussels stay where daily living is dictated by militarist rules and where they are treated with condescension, and are there even humiliated as disobedient children. Claire, a beautiful and hard nurse is a young woman under the influence of the director, who does not dare say what she thinks, and the rules applies. Gradually, thanks to welfare Jacques, Claire realises, that old people the right have to live and independent to believe in that Home.

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0173904/ IMDB entry]
* [http://www.notrecinema.com/images/films/Home_Sweet_Home_Claude_Jade.jpgPicture: Jacques Perrin, Claude Jade: Home sweet Home]