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As a patriarchal family yearns for the birth of a son to continue their family line, their youngest son secretly joins an erotic dance theatre and falls for its transgender starlet.


“What Was Their Guilt?”
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.

Francis Lacombrade
Georges de Sarre

Didier Haudepin
Alexandre Motier

François Leccia
Lucien Rouvière

Dominique Maurin
Marc de Blajean

Louis Seigner
Father Lauzon

Michel Bouquet
Father Trennes

Lucien Nat
Father Superior

Gérard Chambre
André Ferron

Henri Coutet
The employee of the institution

Dominique Diamant
Maurice Motier
This Special Friendship is a drama, romance film released in 1964 exploring themes of based on novel or book, male homosexuality, attraction, lgbt, boys' school, jesuits (society of jesus). Directed by Jean Delannoy, it stars Francis Lacombrade, Didier Haudepin, François Leccia. 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.
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