Au Revoir les Enfants

Updated: 18 Jul 2022

Directors:

Louis Malle Louis Malle Louis Malle Renato Berta Emmanuelle Castro Willy Holt Corinne Jorry Jeanne Biras Susan Robertson Jean-Yves Asselin Gérald Molto Mathieu Amalric Yann Gilbert Michel Grimaud Jérôme Navarro France Lachapelle Marc Koninckx Daniel Couteau Jean-Claude Laureux Claude Villand

Actors:

Gaspard Manesse Raphael Fejtö Francine Racette Philippe Morier-Genoud Stanislas Carré de Malberg François Berléand François Négret Xavier Legrand Pascal Rivet Irène Jacob Richard Leboeuf Peter Fitz Arnaud Henriet Luc Etienne Jean-Paul Dubarry Jacqueline Paris Jean-Sébastien Chauvin Ami Flammer Jacqueline Staup René Bouloc Thomas Peter Friedl Sergio Kato

Genre:

War, Drama

Country: no data

Year: 1987

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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.

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Quentin Tarantino

Director, Screenwriter

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On the surface the 1987 autobiographical film directed by Louis Malle might seem like an odd influence on Reservoir Dogs. As the story goes, Tarantino was working at Video Archives, a video rental store in Manhattan Beach, where he’d often recommend largely unknown films to customers. On one occasion he recommended Au Revoir Les Enfants which was mispronounced by the customer as ‘Reservoir Dogs’. The rest, as they say, is history.

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