Les amitiés particulières (film)

Les amitiés particulières
Directed byJean Delannoy
Written byJean Aurenche
Pierre Bost
Roger Peyrefitte (novel)
Produced byChristine Gouze-Rénal
StarringFrancis Lacombrade
Didier Haudepin
François Leccia
Dominique Maurin
CinematographyChristian Matras
Edited byLouisette Hautecoeur
Music byJean Prodromidès
Production
companies
Lux Film
Progéfi
Distributed byPathé Contemporary Films (US)
Release dates
  • 4 September 1964 (1964-09-04) (France)
  • 7 November 1967 (1967-11-07) (U.S.)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Les amitiés particulières (English: Special Friendships) is a 1964 film adaptation of the Roger Peyrefitte novel of the same name, directed by Jean Delannoy. It was released in 1967 with English subtitles as This Special Friendship. It stars Francis Lacombrade and Didier Haudepin as boys at an upper-class Catholic boarding school, whose chaste but intimate friendship is discouraged as sinful by the priests (played by Louis Seigner, Michel Bouquet, and Lucien Nat).