Un balcon en forêt (film)

{{short description|1978 film directed by Michel Mitrani}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Un balcon en forêt

| image = un-balcon-en-foret.jpg

| caption =

| director = Michel Mitrani

| producer =

| screenplay = Michel Mitrani

| based_on = Balcony in the Forest by Julien Gracq

| starring = {{ubl|

• Humbert Balsan
• Aïna Wallé
• Yves Afonso
• Jacques Charby
• {{ill|Serge Martina|fr}}
• Jacques Villeret

}}

| cinematography = Charly Gaeta

| music =

| editing = Claude Frechede

| distributor = Gaumont Distribution

| released = {{Film date|df=y|1978|5||Cannes|1979|2|28}}

| runtime = 160 minutes

| country = France

| language = French

| budget =

| studio = Antenne 2

}}

Un balcon en forêt ({{literal translation|A Balcony in [a] Forest}}) is a 1978 French war drama film directed by Michel Mitrani, starring Humbert Balsan, Aïna Wallé, Yves Afonso, Jacques Charby, {{ill|Serge Martina|fr}} and Jacques Villeret. It is set in a forest in the Ardennes in 1939, where a group of men occupy a concrete blockhouse in anticipation of an offence from the German army. It is based on the novel Balcony in the Forest by Julien Gracq and was produced by Antenne 2.{{cite book |last=Buache |first=Freddy |year=2005 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YIXPj2E-c2cC&pg=PA22 |title=Michel Mitrani : une bio-filmographie |language=fr |location= |publisher=Cinemathèque suisse and Éditions L'Âge d'Homme |page=22 |isbn=2-8251-3623-9 }}{{cite web |url=https://en.unifrance.org/movie/2681/un-balcon-en-foret |title=Un balcon en forêt |language=fr |publisher=Unifrance |access-date=22 November 2024 }}

The film was in the Un Certain Regard selection at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival.{{cite web |url=https://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm-31997/palmares/ |title=Récompenses et nominations pour le film Un balcon en forêt |website=AlloCiné |language=fr |access-date=22 November 2024 }} It was released in French cinemas on 28 February 1979, distributed by Gaumont.