Au Revoir, Les Enfants
Barcode: 58957510
Call Number: Holocaust
Material Type: Video -DVD
Time: 103 min.
Date: 1987
System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1
Language: French
Creator: Directed by Louis Malle
Description: During the Nazi occupation of Europe, local populations responded to actions against the Jews by collaborating, rescuing, or standing by. All these attitudes are captured in Au Revoir, Les Enfants, Louis Malle's autobiographical story of the year 1944, when three Jewish boys are sheltered at a Catholic boarding school outside Paris. The film captures the danger that those in hiding lived with daily, fearing any small slip that would condemn them to death. Julien Quentin, a sensitive twelve-year-old, forms a shaky friendship with Jean Kippelstein (alias Bonnet), sharing the normal confusions and curiosities of adolescence. But these are not normal times. When Julien learns Jean's secret, he awakens to an adult world of ambiguous moral textures. Soon he will suffer a devastating loss of innocence and learn about guilt, betrayal, and the terrible consequences of evil.
Subjects: Holocaust, Shoah, France, French Jewry, World War II
Collection: Martin Salinger Resource Collection