Au Revoir les Enfants
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In occupied rural France during the winter of 1944, a privileged Catholic boarding school student develops a deep intellectual friendship and piano rivalry with an enigmatic new boy, discovering his friend is a Jewish child sheltered by the heroic Carmelite headmaster under a false name before Gestapo betrayal strikes. Louis Malle's Venice Golden Lion-winning autobiographical masterpiece.
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