Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 105 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- French
- Country
- Germany, France, Italy
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In French — subtitles on.
The story
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.
- france
- parent child relationship
- resistance
- vichy regime
- holocaust (shoah)
- world war ii
- deportation
- jew persecution
- auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp
- national socialism
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Gaspard Manesse
Julien Quentin
Raphael Fejtö
Jean Bonnet
Francine Racette
Mrs. Quentin
Stanislas Carré de Malberg
François Quentin
- Philippe Morier-Genoud — Father Jean
- François Berléand — Father Michel
- François Négret — Joseph
- Peter Fitz — Muller
- Pascal Rivet — Boulanger
- Richard Leboeuf — Sagard
- Xavier Legrand — Babinot
- Arnaud Henriet — Negus
- Jean-Sébastien Chauvin — Laviron
- Luc Etienne — Moreau
- Daniel Edinger — Tinchaut
- Directed
- Louis Malle
- Written
- Louis Malle
Production
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 742 ratings
- Studio
- Nouvelles Éditions de Films, mk2 Films, Stella Film, N.E.F. Filmproduktion und Vertriebs (I)
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