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Au revoir les enfants. 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. [1] It is based on the actions of Père Jacques, a French priest and headmaster who attempted to shelter Jewish children during the ...
May 7, 2006 · A film based on Louis Malle's wartime memory of a Catholic boarding school that sheltered Jewish children. The film follows the friendship of two boys, one of whom is Jewish, and their fates during the Nazi occupation.
The story of a young Jewish boy, Jean Kippelstein aka Jean Bonnet, living under a false identity in a Catholic residential school in Nazi-occupied France. The headmaster knows of his background and is part of the conspiracy to protect him. Jean befriends a classmate, Julien Quentin. who learns of Jean's secret but keeps that information to himself.
France, 1987 / French (Hebrew trans.) / 85 minutes (color) “Au revoir les enfants” – director: Louis Malle. The film we will discuss in this issue had its beginnings in France, when director Louis Malle was a young student at the Petit Collège des Carme, a Christian school in Avon (Seine-et-Marne). The principal of the school, Lucien ...
Feb 12, 1988 · Goodbye, Children: Directed by Louis Malle. With Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejtö, Francine Racette, Stanislas Carré de Malberg. A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives.
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Au revoir, les enfants is the film that Louis Malle had longed to make, a poignant examination of the joys and traumas of early adolescence set against the backdrop of the darkest period in French history. This was not the first time Louis Malle had visited the era of the Nazi Occupation. In 1974, he whipped up a storm of controversy with ...
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Such moments are rare, and they occur most often in childhood, before we have been trained to think before we act. “Au revoir les enfants” (“Goodbye, Children”) is a film about such a moment, about a quick, unthinking glance that may have cost four people their lives. Advertisement. The film was written and directed by Louis Malle, who ...
