War

2005 0h 8m FR

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6.7

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★6.7TMDB · 7

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Synopsis

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During WW2 a boy tries to save himself and his baby sister from a German soldier.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Pau Poch
Child
Rolando Raimjanov
Soldier
Monserrat Anfruna
Mother
Roberto Arnaiz
Father
Henrik Feldmann
Soldier #2 (voice)
Julia Mattei
Narrator (voice)

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Jorge Dorado
Writers: Jorge Dorado, Luiso Berdejo
Languages: French
Countries: Spain

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RUNTIME

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Tight 8-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.

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ERA

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Released 21 years ago.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Jose Tito Martinez shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Pau Poch and Rolando Raimjanov and Monserrat Anfruna carry the top of the cast.

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0478409 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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WILD

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Only 7 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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The take

Jorge Dorado directs. Jose Tito Martinez cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Spain. Dialogue in French.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Tight 8-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
2Released 21 years ago.
3Editor Jose Tito Martinez shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
4Pau Poch and Rolando Raimjanov and Monserrat Anfruna carry the top of the cast.
5IMDB entry: tt0478409 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
6Only 7 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Editing: Jose Tito Martinez
Costume design: Mónica Cristofoletti
Makeup / hair: Cecilia Escot Mangas
Runtime: 8 min · 0h 8m
Status: Released
Original language: FR
IMDB: War (2005)

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Community reviews

What people are saying

CinemaSerf2026-05-14
★ 7/10
“Being unintelligent and armed makes someone into a terribly dangerous person”. That is just one of the mature observations that emanate from a young boy who is fleeing through his derelict village desperate to fetch his younger sister whom he has locked in a chimney for her own safety. He knows that his mother was taken by the soldiers and brutalised; he fears that if he is caught then he will be killed and that his sister will either face a similar fate or be left alone to starve to death. We are told all this by a narration from the lad (Pau Poch) whose use of language is both empathetic and complex. He describes his predicaments with almost scientific detail while all we see is him running and all we hear is his voice and the echoes of him running - and it's really quite an affecting eight minutes of menacing cinema that by no means finishes what it starts. Is it worse just to be terrified or to realise that you are and to understand why?

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