Maurice Pialat's La Maison des bois 6 (1971)

The Armistice has come and it's a time of great rejoicing. But not for those who've lost loved ones, such as the Picard family, and the schoolteacher (Pialat himself) tries to teach his pupils that it's not just a time of celebration but of remembrance. Bébert and Michel leave with their mothers, and Hervé soon follows, with somewhat heavy heart. He's re-joining the father he hardly knew, to live with him in Paris with Hélène (Barbara Laage), his step-mother, and her child by her previous relationship, Brigitte (Brigitte Perrier).

Conveniently, the French Wikipédia provides a précis of each episode, which I give at the bottom of each post here: as La Maison des bois deserves more than one long blog post, I make seven short ones.

Épisode 6

1 La vie continue – 2 L’armisticide – 3 Vive la France – 4 Le champ d’honneur – 5 L’instituteur – 6 La cour de récréation – 7 Le cadeau du marquis – 8 Les filles – 9 Le départ de Bébert et Michel – 10 Hervé dans son nouveau costume – 11 La nouvelle famille d’Hervé – 12 La maison est vide – 13 Une nouvelle pensionnaire – 14 Hervé et Magali – 15 Leçon de géographie – 16 Les adieux d’Hervé – 17 Générique