Au revoir les enfants

original title:
Au revoir les enfants
other titles:
Goodbye Children, (Auf Wiedersehen, Kinder!)
country / year of production:
France , Germany / 1987
original length:
104 min. , color
premiere:
F: 7 October 1987
genre:
melodrama
based on:
director:
Louis Malle
film script:
Louis Malle
producer:
Louis Malle
cinematographer:
Renato Berta
editor:
composer:
Camille Saint-Saëns
cast (role):
Gaspard Manesse (Julien) , Raphael Fejtö (Bonnet) , Francine Racette (Mme. Quentin) , Stanislas Carré de Malberg (François Quentin) , Philippe Morier-Genoud (Père Jean) , Gaspard Manesse , Philippe Morier-Genoud , Raphael Fejtö , Peter Fitz , Stanislas Carré de Malberg , Francine Racette , François Berléand , François Négret
more:
plot synopsis:
France, a convent school, winter 1944. The cathlic priests try to hide Jewish children among their pupils. Julian, one of pupils becomes friends with one of the hidden boys. But the German Gestapo find the hiding-place, arrest the boy and the priest responsible.
A moving film about a boy growing up in world of rassism, guild, treachery but also of solidarity.
keywords:
Holocaust , children , betrayal, treason , genocide
war:
Second World War (1939-1945)
literature:
Caroline Perret. Poisoned Memory: Film and the Occupation of France. Imperial War Museum, Film & Video Archive.

Ahlrich Meyer: Die deutsche Besatzung in Frankreich 1940-1944: Widerstandsbekämpfung und Judenverfolgung. Darmstadt: Wiss. Buchges., 2000. ISBN: 3-534-14966-1
remarks:
Homepage: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/film/pdf_download/CarolinePerret.pdf
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