Original film version of the Louis Pergaud novel Les Guerre des boutons, later remade in Ireland in 1995. Two bands of boys from nearby villages just can't get along, battle each other after school, remove the buttons of those they capture to humiliate their prisoners.Directed by Yves Robert.1961 Robert Rollis, Yves Reneau, Petit Gibus, Henri Labuassiere, Claude Confortes, Paul Crauchet, Jacques Dufilho, Yvette Etievant, Michel Balabro, Michele Meritz, Jean Richard, Pierre Trabaud.

Two bands of boys, roughly eight to fourteen years old, from neighboring Irish villages battle each other daily since, well, there is little better to do. Prisoners of War undergo the "torture" of having all their clothing-buttons cut off. Depending on whom one's parents are, this can be more serious than it sounds. Yet, might the leaders of the two gangs (Gregg Fitzgerald and John Coffey) ever prove capable of understanding one another, forming a truce?
1994 Some of the accents can be a little difficult to follow at times; Gregg Fitzgerald, John Coffey, Eveanna Ryan, Gerard Kearney, Darragh Naughton, Brendan McNamara, Kevin O'Malley, John Cleere, Anthony Cunningham, Thomas Kavanagh, John Crowley, Stuard Dannell-Foran, Danielle Tuite, Helen O'Leary, Yvonne McNamara, Paul Batt, Kari Byrne, Barry Walsh, Niall Collins, Derek O'Leary, Rory White, Johnny Murphy, Andrew Goyvaerts.