L'Ecole Buissonière (1948)
- Starring:
- Bernard Blier, Edouard Delmont, (more)
- Director(s):
- Jean-Paul Le Chanois
Synopsis of L'Ecole Buissonière
L'Ecole Buissoniere could be described as a small-scale Gallic version of Goodbye Mr. Chips. Bernard Blier stars as Pascal, a head-in-the-clouds teacher forced to come down to earth when he is assigned a woebegone rural school. Hoping to stimulate his students, Pascal digresses from the established curriculum, only to run afoul of the hidebound adults in the vicinity. Eventually, however, he is successful with his students--all but one. The climax finds Pascal desperately trying to turn his lone "problem student" around before his license is revoked. The film works best in the one-on-one scenes between Bernard Blier and recalcitrant schoolboy D. Caron. The 115-minute running time was trimmed considerably when L'Ecole Buissoniere made it to American television in the mid-1950s. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of L'Ecole Buissonière
- Bernard Blier - Pascal Laurent
- Juliette Faber - Mile Arnoud
- Jean Aquistapace - Antique Dealer
- Gaston Modot
- Edouard Delmont - Arnaud
- Jean-Louis Allibert - Innovator
- Maupi - Chemist
- Henri Poupon - The Examiner
- Director(s):
- Jean-Paul Le Chanois
- Writer(s):
- Jean-Paul Le Chanois, Elise Freinet
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