Au Revoir les Enfants

An autobiographical film by Louis Malle about the most terrifying event of his childhood.

World War II, France is occupied by the Nazis. The headmaster of a Catholic boys' school decides to shelter several Jewish children. The main character, a French boy named Julien Quentin (the director's alter ego), befriends one of them. The children live a completely ordinary childhood until the Gestapo discovers the headmaster's "transgression" through someone's tip-off.