Drama Comedy
This loosely plotted coming-of-age tale follows the life of 15-year-old Laurent Chevalier as he stumbles his way over the burgeoning swell of adolescence in 1950s France. After having his first sexual experience with a prostitute and dodging the lips of a priest, Chevalier contracts a case of scarlet fever. When the fever leaves him with a heart murmur, Chevalier is placed in a sanatorium, along with his over-attentive and adulterous mother.
Directed by
Louis Malle
Written by
Louis Malle
Ave Ninchi
Augusta
Daniel Gélin
Charles Chevalier
Lea Massari
Clara Chevalier
Michael Lonsdale
Father Henri
Jacques Sereys
Doctor
Henri Poirier
Uncle Leonce
René Bouloc
Man at Bastille Day party
Annie Savarin
Le cuisinière
Benoît Ferreux
Laurent Chevalier
Gila von Weitershausen
Freda
Bernadette Robert
Michel Charrel
Disquaire (uncredited)
Jacques Gheusi
Hotel receptionist
Fabien Ferreux
Thomas
Marc Winocourt
Marc
Micheline Bona
Aunt Claudine
Liliane Sorval
Fernande
Yvon Lec
Father Superior

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