# The Long, Long Holiday (2015)

> Two young Parisian siblings are sent to their grandparents' Norman village in 1939 and must grow up amid mobilization, occupation and the Resistance.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/61524

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 10
- Episode runtime: 26 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: animation, drama, family, war
- Created by: Delphine Maury, Olivier Vinuesa
- Network: France 3
- Cast: Antoine Lelandais, Philippe Catoire, Julien Crampon, Julien Alluguette, Cédric Dumond, Clara Quilichini, Benjamin Bollen, Dorothée Pousséo
- TMDB rating: 8.8/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4641870/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: mild
- Tone: gentle, wistful, melancholic, warm, hopeful

## Synopsis

The Long, Long Holiday (Les Grandes Grandes Vacances) (2015) is a French animated historical drama series created by Delphine Maury and Olivier Vinuesa for France 3. Siblings Colette and Ernest Bonhoure, voiced by Clara Quilichini and Julien Crampon, are two Parisian children whose short summer visit to their maternal grandparents in a fictional village called Grangeville, near Dieppe in Normandy, stretches into something much longer. Their father is called up to fight when France mobilizes against the German army, and their mother must travel to a Swiss sanatorium for tuberculosis treatment, leaving the children in the care of their grandparents. The engine of the series is the everyday life of two city kids adapting to rural routines, new friendships and rationing, while the shadow of occupation and the Resistance slowly moves closer to their village. Each episode is built around small domestic adventures and the bonds formed with local children, so the stakes accumulate quietly rather than through spectacle. Presented as a single ten-episode season of 26-minute installments, the show is set in wartime 1939 and early occupation-era Normandy. Its tone is gentle yet wistful, with a melancholic undercurrent of separation and loss beneath the playful surface. Fans of Grave of the Fireflies and Hidden Figures will find resonance in its child-centered view of history, and the 3d animation gives the countryside a warm, storybook texture.

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