Belle et Sébastien (2013)

Name: Belle et Sébastien
Released: 2013
Duration: 104 min

Belle and Sebastian

fiction · 104 min · France

Directed by: Nicolas Vanier

Set in: Saint-Martin, a fictional village in the French Alps near the Swiss border, during the Second World War (1943)

In a wartime Alpine village, a young boy befriends a wild mountain dog that the villagers blame for killing their sheep.

Where it was filmed

L'Écot hamlet (Bonneval-sur-Arc)
Savoie · France
Village of Saint-Martin where Sébastien lives
Bonneval sur Arc on MR. ALPS
Bonneval-sur-Arc
Savoie · France
Pont de la Lame waterfall, Angélina's bakery, the Lenta valley, Lac Blanc and Lac Noir
Bonneval sur Arc on MR. ALPS
Bessans
Savoie · France
Exterior of César's chalet above the Avérole hamlet; the sheepfold at L'Arcelle in the Ribon valley
Bessans Val d'Arc on MR. ALPS
Bramans
Savoie · France
Interior of César's chalet, the German barracks (Redoute Marie-Thérèse) and the cave of the Jewish family
Lanslebourg-Mont-Cenis (Val-Cenis)
Savoie · France
Cabin under the Roche à Pierres longues, used as the Grand Baou refuge
Lac du Lait (Termignon, Val-Cenis)
Savoie · France
Mountain lake scenes
Termignon on MR. ALPS
Font d'Urle
Drôme (Vercors) · France
Opening and closing scenes
Mont Blanc massif (unnamed glacier)
France
Opening and closing scenes on a glacier

Filming locations as stated in the sources below. The story may be set somewhere else.

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