I found the treasure all by myself.

Rating: 8/10 (12 April 2009)

Practically sweeping the César Awards (seven win out of nine nominations), this Oscar nominated film is a reminisce for writer/director Louis Malle (Atlantic City, Murmur of the Heart).
A WWII film about a Catholic school that hides Jews, it is a story of an upper born French student Julien Quentin (Gaspard Manesse) who befriends a Jewish student Jean Bonnet (Raphael Fejtö). Julien is based upon Malle's childhood memories.
Of course, I got to reminisce a little myself as I spent a year in a school just like this.
Quentin discovers Bonnet is a Jew, and cannot understand all the fuss.
While e is trying to figure things out, Father Jean (Philippe Morier-Genoud) is really hitting hard with the sermons, even causing some parents to walk out. At lunch with his mother (Francine Racette) and brother (Stanislas Carré de Malberg) and Bonnet, he is exposed to collaborators.
But the real revelation comes when Joseph (François Négret), a kitchen worker who got fired for black market activity, sells out the school to the Nazis and the Jewish children are captured to be taken to the death camps. It was at that time that Quentin realized what a treasure he had truly found.