SYNOPSIS: Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provincial Catholic boarding school, the precocious youths enjoy true camaraderie—until a secret is revealed. Based on events from writer-director Malle’s own childhood, the film is a subtle, precisely observed tale of courage, cowardice, and tragic awakening.
| Julien | Gaspard Manesse |
| Bonnet | Raphaël Fejitö |
| Madame Quentin | Francine Racette |
| François Quentin | Stanislas Carré de Malberg |
| Père Jean | Philippe Morier-Genoud |
| Père Michel | François Berléand |
| Joseph | François Négret |
| Muller | Peter Fitz |
| Director | Louis Malle |
| Screenplay | Louis Malle |
| Director of photography | Renato Berta |
| Editor | Emmanuelle Castro |
| Assistant editor | Marie-France Poulizac |
| Assistant director | Yann Gilbert |
| Production manager | Gérald Molto |
| Unit production manager | Jean-Yves Asselin |
| Casting | Jeanne Biras and Iris Carrière |
| Continuity | France La Chapelle |
| Costumes | Corrine Jorry |
| Hair and makeup | Susan Robertson |
| Sound | Jean-Claude Laureux |
| Sound mixer | Claude Villand |
| Foley artist | Daniel Couteau |
| Production design | Willy Holt |
| Production consultant | Christian Ferry |
By March 27, 2006
“Do you realize,” muses the twelve-year-old Julien Quentin, rapt in the solipsism of early adolescence, “that there’ll never be another January 17, 1944? Never again? . . . I’m the only one in . . . Read more »
By March 27, 2006
The site of Louis Malle’s film Au revoir les enfants was the Petit-Collège d’Avon, a residential prep school located on the grounds of the Carmelite monastery abutting the park of the fabled French . . . Read more »
