La ville dont le prince est un enfant (1997)
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Clément van den Bergh, Nael Marandin, Christophe Malavoy, Michel Aumont
A school prefect's secret fascination with a younger pupil turns a friendship between two boys into a rivalry that ends in a trap.
The story
Sixteen-year-old André Sevrais and eleven-year-old Serge Souplier are schoolboys in different grades whose “special friendship” arouses the jealousy of their prefect of studies, Abbé de Pradts. Secretly fascinated by Serge, the prefect seeks to rid himself of André by setting a trap for him. The conflict centers on the boys’ friendship and the prefect’s jealous intervention; the plot description does not explain the trap’s details.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
The “special friendship” between two schoolboys from different grades, 16-year-old André Sevrais and 11-year-old Serge Souplier, arouses the jealousy of the prefect of studies, Abbé de Pradts, who is secretly fascinated by young Souplier. To get rid of his rival, he sets a trap for him, but in the end he is the one destroyed by it.
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