Au revoir les enfants (1987)

This autobiographical recounting of Malle's most tragic memory begins in 1944 at an all-boy Catholic school. A young boy befriends a new student whom the others feel is different. When he discovers the new student is a Jew, he tells no one and remains a true friend. Tragedy strikes when a school employee tells the Gestapo they are hiding Jews and the student is arrested and taken away.

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Gaspard Manesse plays Julien, an 11-year-old Catholic boarding-school resident during the Nazi occupation of France. He is witness to the courage of his instructors, who defy the German's anti-Semitic policies and quietly enroll Jewish children into the school under assumed names. Manesse befriends Jean (Raphael Fejto), one of these "instant Catholics." The refugee children are betrayed by a hostile ex-employee of the school, forcing Julien once more to be a bystander to history as Jean and the teachers are arrested. For this return to the French film industry after several years in the US, Louis Malle purged him...
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self of his own bitter memories of life under the thumbs of the Nazis.
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Bezet Frankrijk tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Op een internaat op het platteland worden twee jongetjes (waaronder Jean, die joods is) boezemvrienden. Bijna niemand weet van Jeans afkomst, totdat... Regisseur Louis Malle maakte deze film aan de hand van letterlijk gebeurde gebeurtenissen toen hij zelf, als knaap, op internaat zat tijdens de oorlog.

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