Au revoir les enfants

Au revoir les enfants is a 1987 autobiographical drama directed by Louis Malle, a France, West Germany and Italy co-production starring Gaspard Manesse and Raphael Fejto. Set at a Catholic boarding school in occupied France in the winter of 1943 and 1944, it follows a student's friendship with a new classmate who is secretly a Jewish refugee sheltered by the school's headmaster, a friendship cut short when the Gestapo raids the school. The film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, several César Awards including Best Film and Best Director, and an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.