Gaspard Manesse

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Gaspard Manesse (born March 25, 1975 ) is a French actor and composer.

With his first film role, he achieved international fame in 1987 at the age of twelve: He played one of the two main roles in Louis Malles film Auf Wiedersehen, Kinder ( Au revoir les enfants ), a student living in occupied France in 1944, who had an intense Builds friendship with a Jewish classmate hidden in the school and ultimately has to watch helplessly as he is exposed and deported.

Over the years Manesse played in other films and also devoted himself to composition in adulthood.

Filmography

as an actor
  • 1987: Goodbye, children
  • 1989: Sin of youth
  • 2002: Comme il vient
  • 2009: Un transport en commun
as a composer
  • 2002: Comme il vient

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