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Passion for Life

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Original title

L'école buissonnière

Year

1949

Running time

89 min.

Country

France

Director

Jean-Paul Le Chanois

Screenwriter

Jean-Paul Le Chanois

Cast

Music

Joseph Kosma

Cinematography

André Dumaître, Marc Fossard, Maurice Pecqueux, Léo Mirkine, Jacques Natteau (B&W)

Producer

UGC Images, Coopérative Générale du Cinéma Français. Distributor: Brandon Films

Genre

Comedy. Drama

Synopsis

Soon after the Great War, the Provence village of Salezes gets a new boys' teacher: Mr. Pascal, a war hero with a diploma from a teachers' college. He rejects old methods: boys' sitting still with arms folded memorizing facts. He uses modern methods: he becomes their guide. The boys build a water-powered electric generator, interview their parents about shoe-making and cooking, draw, write poetry, and, after Pascal brings a box of type, put their own magazine together, printed on the backs of old ballots. Their new interest in critical thinking stirs opposition from the mayor and others. The teacher offers a deal: if even one student fails the national exam, he'll resign. All eyes are on Albert, an older youth who has failed three times.

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Passion for Life

1949

Jean-Paul Le Chanois