Raphael Fejtö
- Director
- Writer
- Actor
Raphael Fejtö is a French actor, he secured an important role in Louis Malle's classic film Au Revoir les Enfants (1987) where Raphael plays Jean Bonnet, a Jewish boy who is sent to a boarding school during the early days of World War II. His status as a Jew is hidden from everybody except the school owners and he's hidden since the Nazi troops don't usually go to that route. There, after facing some prejudice (since he's new at school) and pranks from colleagues, he befriends another boy (played by Gaspard Manesse) of whom he shares his secret and they embark on a steady relationship that will alter their lives forever.
It marked as Fejtö's only feature film performance and from then on he went on directed a couple of short film and began a career as a children's author.
It marked as Fejtö's only feature film performance and from then on he went on directed a couple of short film and began a career as a children's author.