Au Revoir Les Enfants 1987

World War II: France is occupied by the Nazis. The headmaster of a Catholic boys’ school decides to take in several Jewish children. The main character, a French boy named Julien Cantin, befriends one of them. And when the Gestapo, acting on a tip, discovers the principal’s transgression and takes him and the Jewish children away to certain death, it becomes a terrible blow for Julien that will shape the rest of his life.