In the words of the director himself, “Au revoir les enfants is drawn from the most dramatic experience of my childhood. In 1944, when I was eleven, I was boarding in a Catholic school near Fontainebleau. One of my classmates, who had arrived at the beginning of the year, intrigued me a great deal. He was different, secretive. I was getting to know him, learning to love him when, one morning, our little world fell apart. I have tried to rediscover that first, and most powerfull, friendship that was so abruptly destroyed; and my introduction to the absurdities of the adult world with its violence and prejudices.”
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ACMI Identifier
307443
Language
French
Audience classification
PG
Subject categories
Armed Forces, Military, War & Weapons → Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945
Armed Forces, Military, War & Weapons → World War, 1939-1945 - France
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Anti-semitism
Feature films → Feature films - France
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Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)