Louis Malle depicts a crucial experience from his own boyhood years. In the winter of 1944 eleven-year-old Julien returns from vacation to find three new boys enrolled in his Catholic boarding school. One of them, Bonnet, arouses his curiosity with his mysterious, strange ways. Julien is determined to find out his secret: Bonnet is Jewish and is living under a false name. A tender friendship grows between the two boys, but one day the bitter reality of the war and the occupation marches through their tiny and sheltered world. Bonnet, two other Jewish children and the school's principal are picked up by the Gestapo. They never return.
Louis Malle was born in Thumeries in France in 1932.
Filmography: 1958 ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS 1960 ZAZIE IN THE METRO 1971 MURMUR OF THE HEART 1974 LACOMBE, LUCIEN 1980 ATLANTIC CITY 1981 MY DINNER WITH ANDRÉ
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