# Au Revoir les Enfants (1987)

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**Original title**: *Au revoir les enfants*
**Runtime**: 105 min
**Genres**: Drama, War
**Directed by**: Louis Malle
**Written by**: Louis Malle
**Starring**: Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejtö, Francine Racette, Stanislas Carré de Malberg, Philippe Morier-Genoud, François Berléand

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

You board at a French Catholic school in 1944. Two boys swap contraband chocolates and secrets at night. Then one boy hides a forbidden guest behind the boiler room door. Louis Malle’s memory becomes your classroom in quiet terror and sudden loss.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, bittersweet, tender

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