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The Red Balloon (Le Ballon rouge)
| Rating: | No Rating |
| Genre: | Family, SciFi/Fantasy |
| Release Date: | November 16, 2007 |
| Running time: | 34 minutes |
| Cast: | Pascal Lamorisse, Georges Sellier, Vladimir Popov, Paul Perey, René Marion |
| Director: | Albert Lamorisse |
| Producer: | Albert Lamorisse |
| Writer: | Albert Lamorisse |
| Distributor: | Lopert Pictures Corporation |
Description: Six-year old petit garçon Pascal Lamorisse and the biggest, shiniest ballon rouge ever--25,000 were used during shooting--share near dialogue-less adventures tagging after each other through the old Belleville section of Paris. Perhaps the most acclaimed short film of all time, "The Red Balloon" won the Palme d'Or for court métrage at Cannes and the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, making it the only short ever given an Oscar for a feature category.
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