This Special Friendship

This Special Friendship

What Was Their Guilt?

1964 · 96 min · ★ 7.8 · Drama, Romance

A tale of the tender relationship between a twelve-year-old boy and the fourteen-year-old upperclassman who is the object of his desire, all set within the rigid atmosphere of a Jesuit-run school.

Directed by Jean Delannoy · Written by Jean Aurenche

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