Guilt & the Myth of the Innocent Bystander: Louis Malle’s Au revoir les enfants

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  • Marie-Christine Jutras

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29173/cons9576

Abstract

This review studies the representation of director Louis Malle's experiences as a child in the Holocaust in the film Au Revoir les enfants. The film blurs the lines between the controversial categories of Holocaust participants as victims, bystanders, and perpetrators. This ambiguity and overlapping of roles in the film presents the question of treatment of Holocaust memory.

Author Biography

Marie-Christine Jutras

Marie-Christine Jutras is in her 3rd year of Combined Honors in History and Political Science. She enjoys studying 20th century history and politics of countries around the world. She has a particular interest in the guilt and memory of nations involved in the Holocaust.

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Published

2010-12-16

How to Cite

Jutras, M.-C. (2010). Guilt & the Myth of the Innocent Bystander: Louis Malle’s Au revoir les enfants. Constellations, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.29173/cons9576

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