Au Revoir Les Enfants

103 minutes, color, subtitles
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The French filmmaker Louis Malle based Au Revoir Les Enfants on his own experiences as a schoolboy in Nazi-occupied France. This feature-length film tells the story of the friendship that develops between Julien, a Catholic schoolboy and Jean, a Jewish boy who is being sheltered by the headmaster of their private boarding school. Throughout the film several themes emerge that are central to Facing History and Ourselves such as peer relationships, "the courage to care," and betrayal. In the end of the film, Jean's identity is revealed by a former employee of the school; Jean and several other boys are rounded up in the schoolyard with their headmaster and taken away by the Gestapo.