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Au revoir les enfants (French pronunciation: [o ʁə.vwaʁ le zɑ̃.fɑ̃], meaning "Goodbye, Children") is an autobiographical 1987 film written, produced, and directed by Louis Malle. It is based on the actions of Père Jacques, a French priest and headmaster who attempted to shelter Jewish children during the Holocaust.
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Feb 12, 1988 · In 1944, upper class boy Julien Quentin and his brother François travel to Catholic boarding school in the countryside after vacations. Julien is a leader and good student and when the new student Jean Bonnet arrives in the school, they have friction in their relationship.
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- Drama, War
- Louis Malle
- 1988-02-12
Mar 15, 2011 · Given such moments, Au revoir les enfants —for all its tragic subject matter and its elegiac finale—is anything but depressing. In the last scene, as the three Jewish boys and Père Jean are led away to their deaths, Bonnet glances back, and Julien (or, rather, the young Louis Malle) raises his hand in timid salute.
May 7, 2006 · One of the foundations of Louis Malle's "Au revoir les enfants" (1987) is how naturally he evokes the daily life of a French boarding school in 1944. His central story shows young life hurtling forward; he knows, because he was there, that some of these lives will be exterminated.
Poignant subtitled WWII story about kids and loss. Read Common Sense Media's Au Revoir Les Enfants review, age rating, and parents guide.
- Louis Malle
- Renee Schonfeld
- Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejto
Mar 15, 2011 · Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provincial Catholic boarding school, the precocious youths enjoy true camaraderie—until a secret is revealed.
The helpless Father Jacques turns to his students: “Au revoir les enfants.”. In his autobiography “Where Memory Leads," 5 the historian and Holocaust researcher Shaul Friedlander describes his childhood in France during the Second World War.
