Fanny's Journey
Fanny's Journey is a 2016 French-Belgian children's war drama film co-written and directed by Lola Doillon. The film is inspired by the autobiographical memoir Le journal de Fanny by Fanny Ben-Ami.
Plot
During WWII, a group of French Jewish children, who had been sheltered in Vichy France by the Jewish charity Œuvre de secours aux enfants for three years, must flee to Italian occupied France when the Germans occupy Vichy France and again to neutral Switzerland after the Germans occupy the Italian zone following Italy's armistice with the Allies, leaving their family and teachers behind.Cast
- Léonie Souchaud as Fanny
- Fantine Harduin as Erika
- Juliane Lepoureau as Georgette
- Ryan Brodie as Victor
- Anaïs Meiringer as Diane
- Lou Lambrecht as Rachel
- Igor van Dessel as Maurice
- Malonn Lévana as Marie
- Lucien Khoury as Jacques
- Cécile de France as Madame Forman
- Stéphane De Groodt as Jean
- Elea Körner as Helga
- Alice D'Hauwe as Ethel
- Jérémie Petrus as Julien