Louis Malle film recalls a boyhood in wartime

Chicago Sun-Times | December 12, 1987| | Copyright

PARIS During the last days of Nazi-occupied France, French schoolboys in an icy courtyard stared in horror as German soldiers herded off their headmaster and three classmates at gunpoint.

Filmmaker Louis Malle was one of those shivering and terrified 12-year-olds. With "Au Revoir Les Enfants," he has dredged the painful scene from his memory and re-created it for his new movie.

"It took me a long time to make this film," said Malle, 55. "It was very important for me to transmit the memory, and judging from the enormously positive response, the film touched a very deep chord in people."

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