Au revoir les enfants

Au revoir les enfants is a French film by Louis Malle from 1987. The film premiered on 29 August 1987 on the Venice Film festival.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == France, WW II: the young Julien Quintin, returns after the Christmas holidays back to the Catholic boarding school where he runs. There he close friendship with the new pupil, Jean Bonnet. Julien is very intrigued by Jean. One night when he wakes up, he sees that Jean carries a kippah and is praying in Hebrew. Julien understands that his new friend is Jewish . Père Jean, the headmaster, Jean and adopted some other Jewish boys at his school hoping to save them from the nazi's
 * 2 Cast
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 * 4 awards and nominations
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One morning in January 1944, the Gestapo, however, within the school. They are informed by the former stripper Joseph. Julien accidentally betrays his friend by to look in his direction, when the Gestapo entering their classroom.

Père Jean and the Jewish boys are taken into account while the other students are gathered in the courtyard. When those arrested transit, call the boys: Au revoir, mon père, which Père Jean responds, Au revoir, les enfants, à bientôt. Père Jean, Jean Bonnet and the other guys are all about in the concentration camps. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == ==Background[ Edit] == The film is based on events from the youth of Director Louis Malle, who on his 11th on the boarding school of the Carmelites was close to Fontainebleau . One day he witnessed how the Gestapo raided did and three Jewish students + took a Jewish teacher. They were sent to Auschwitz and gassed there. The headmaster, Lucien Bunel-Père Jacques de Jesus, was also arrested because he had hidden Jews in the school. He also ended up in a concentration camp, and died soon after this camp had been conquered by the Americans. ==Awards and nominations<span class="mw-editsection" len="349" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==