School of Life (2017)
Paris 1930. Paul has only ever had one and the same horizon: the high walls of the orphanage, an austere building in the Parisian working class suburbs. Entrusted to a joyful country woman, Célestine, and her husband, Borel, the rather stiff gamekeeper of a vast estate in Sologne, the city child, recalcitrant and stubborn, arrives in a mysterious and disturbing world, that of a sovereign and wild region. The huge forest, misty ponds, heaths, and fields all belong to the Count de la Fresnaye, an elderly taciturn man who lives alone in his manor.
Director: Nicolas Vanier
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François Cluzet as Totoche |
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Jean Scandel as Paul Caradec |
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Éric Elmosnino as Borel |
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François Berléand as Count Louis Fernand de La Fresnaye |
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Valérie Karsenti as Célestine |
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Thomas Durand as Bertrand |
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Ilona Cabrera as Bella |
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Frédéric Saurel as Dédé |
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Urbain Cancelier as Lucien |
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Murielle Huet des Aunay as Montaine |
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Thierry Robard as Armand |
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Carolina Jurczak as Florence |
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Affif Ben Badra as Leader of the gypsies |
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Claudine Baschet as Gypsy granny |
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Christine Joly as Madeleine |
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Laurent Gerra as Gendarme |
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Matthieu Warter as Gendarme |
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Jean-François Pagès as Notary |
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Cyril Necker as Orphanage director |
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Linda Cormier as Grouchy guest |
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Stéphane Gourdon as Chief surveyor |
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Jean-Marie Sirgue as Surveyor |
| Writing | Nicolas Vanier | Novel |
| Visual Effects | Guy Monbillard | Special Effects Supervisor |
| Sound | Emmanuel Hachette | Sound |
| Sound | Armand Amar | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Laurent Charbonnier | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Raphaële Urtin | Editor |
| Production | Sylvie Brocheré | Casting |
| Art | Sébastian Birchler | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Adélaïde Gosselin | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Thi Thanh Tu Nguyen | Makeup Department Head |
| Camera | Éric Guichard | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Hugo Gonzalez-Pioli | Music |
| Writing | Jérôme Tonnerre | Writer |
| Writing | Nicolas Vanier | Writer |
| Production | Matthieu Warter | Producer |
| Production | Clément Miserez | Producer |
| Production | Philippe Gautier | Production Director |
| Production | Gwendale Schmitz | Casting |
| Directing | Nicolas Vanier | Director |