Après le succès de Belle et Sébastien, près de trois millions d’entrées et 50000 exemplaires vendus tous formats confondus, un deuxième film met en scène les mêmes personnages au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
La Seconde Guerre mondiale est terminée.
Sébastien a dix ans. Belle et lui attendent impatiemment le retour d’Angelina, qui est comme une mère pour le jeune orphelin.
Mais Angelina ne revient pas. Son avion s’est écrasé, au cœur des forêts transalpines.
Tout le village a perdu espoir. Tout le village, sauf César : le grand-père de Sébastien connaît un homme, un pilote du nom de Pierre, qui pourrait les aider à retrouver Angelina.
Pour sauver la jeune femme, l’enfant et son chien, passagers clandestins de l’avion de Pierre, vont devoir braver mille dangers, traverser mille épreuves, et affronter un secret. Un secret qui va changer la vie de Belle et de Sébastien à tout jamais. Car après avoir appris qu’il ne verrait jamais sa mère, Sébastien va enfin retrouver son père.
Cécile Aubry was a French film actress, author, television screenwriter and director. Born Anne-José Madeleine Henriette Bénard, Aubry began her career as a dancer. At age 20, she was signed to 20th Century Fox.
She made her break as the star of Henri-Georges Clouzot's Manon (1949), which won the Golden Lion at the famed Venice Film Festival. That brought her a leading role alongside Tyrone Power and Orson Welles in American director Henry Hathaway's feature The Black Rose (1950). She had a strong performance in Christian-Jacque's Bluebeard (1952), one of the first French-produced films to be made in color. For a short time, she was a Hollywood success, signing a lucrative contract with Fox, employing her parents as a publicity team, and regularly appearing in French film magazines as an example of the perfect hybrid of Franco-American femininity.
Her film career was short. It was interrupted by a secret six-year marriage to Si Brahim El Glaoui, the eldest son of the pasha of Marrakesh. She announced her retirement from film in 1959, claiming that she had only enjoyed cinema for its travel opportunities. She went on to write children's books and scenarios for children's television with considerable success.
She is known in France for her TV series for children, Poly, about a boy and a horse, and Belle et Sébastien, adapted for television from her books. The main character in both series was played by her son, Mehdi El Glaoui (credited as "Mehdi").
On 19 July 2010, she died from lung cancer in Dourdan (Essonne), France, aged 81.