Au revoir les enfants

AKA:
Auf Wiedersehen, Kinder (West Germany)
Goodbye, Children (International: English title)
Nouveau, Le (France) (working title)

Written by:
Louis Malle

Directed by:
Louis Malle

Made in:
France & West Germany in 1987

Actors:
Gaspard Manesse .... Julien Quentin
Raphael Fejtö .... Jean Bonnet/Jean Kippeinstein
Francine Racette .... Mme Quentin Julien's mother
Stanislas Carré de Malberg .... François Quentin (as Stanislas Carré De Malberg)
Philippe Morier-Genoud .... Père Jean
François Berléand .... Père Michel
François Négret .... Joseph
Peter Fitz .... Muller
Pascal Rivet .... Boulanger
Benoît Henriet .... Ciron
Richard Leboeuf .... Sagard
Xavier Legrand .... Babinot
Arnaud Henriet .... Negus
Jean-Sébastien Chauvin .... Michel Laviron
Luc Etienne .... Moreau (as Luc Étienne)

Plot:
During WWII, in a Catholic boarding school in the French countryside, two boys become friends. One is a French boy, Julien Quintin, and the other is a Jewish boy, Jean Bonnet, who is being hidden from the Nazis by the friars who run the school. Louis Malle directed this film based on what actually happened when he was at a boarding school himself during the war. IMDB

Review:
This is a great movie, and a very emotional movie at that. We watched it in a university French class, while we were reading lots of work during the Nazi possession.

This is such a great film and definately worth watching.

Language is in French and German. Luckily, I was taking German at the same time! So it was a very enjoyable movie for me, besides the greatness of the movie on its own. But I'm quite positive that there are subtitles available.

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