“Au Revoir les Enfants”, the autobiographical movie by Louis Malle

When the French movie director Louis Malle made “Lacombe, Lucien” in 1974 he knew he was touching on a very sore subject. The story of a teenage peasant who joins up with the Gestapo after being rejected as too young by the French Resistance, “Lacombe, Lucien” documents one person’s journey to the dark side, and it’s a disturbing sight.

The young actor Pierre Blaise as Lucien Lacombe

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