WWII In France

Tue 1 Apr
School Activities

Immerse your pupils in French culture for a full day with linguistic or cultural activity in the morning and a school screening in the afternoon.

Programme

10:30am – Activity

Choose between the 2 following activities:

  • Language Activity (year 8-12) : Y8-9 will learn about WWII and resistance in France through the introduction of the film Goodbye Children and its characters. For Y10-11-12 the subject of WWII will be looked at in more detail.

 

12pm – Lunch break

 

12:45pm – Screening

Au Revoir les Enfants

cert. 12A | by Louis Malle, 2022, 104′, fetaure, in French with English subtitles

Bafta winner for Best Direction, Louis Malle, waited 42 years to make this semi-autobiographical film, set in January 1944 at an exclusive Catholic boarding school outside Fontainebleau. One of the great movies about World War Two and the German Occupation, this richly detailed, immaculately acted film traces the friendship between two 12 years-old, one from a wealthy Catholic family through whose eyes the events are seen, the other a Jewish boy hidden by priests, his identity concealed

 

 

2:40pm – End of the day

 

Contact

Edinburgh