

School of Life
2017-02-22 · 116 min · ★ 7.4
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.
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- Directors
- Nicolas Vanier
- Production companies
- StudioCanal, Radar Films, France 2 Cinéma
- Countries
- France
- Status
- Released
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François CluzetTotoche
Jean ScandelPaul Caradec
Éric ElmosninoBorel
François BerléandCount Louis Fernand de La Fresnaye
Valérie KarsentiCélestine
Thomas DurandBertrand
Ilona CabreraBella
Frédéric SaurelDédé
Urbain CancelierLucien
Murielle Huet des AunayMontaine
Thierry RobardArmand
Carolina JurczakFlorence
Affif Ben BadraLeader of the gypsies
Claudine BaschetGypsy granny
Christine JolyMadeleine
Laurent GerraGendarme
Matthieu WarterGendarme
Jean-François PagèsNotary
Cyril NeckerOrphanage director
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