School of Life

The story

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.

Cast

F François CluzetTotoche J Jean ScandelPaul Caradec É Éric ElmosninoBorel F François BerléandCount Louis Fernand de La Fresnaye V Valérie KarsentiCélestine T Thomas DurandBertrand I Ilona CabreraBella F Frédéric SaurelDédé U Urbain CancelierLucien M Murielle Huet des AunayMontaine T Thierry RobardArmand C Carolina JurczakFlorence

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A Affif Ben BadraLeader of the gypsies C Claudine BaschetGypsy granny C Christine JolyMadeleine L Laurent GerraGendarme M Matthieu WarterGendarme J Jean-François PagèsNotary C Cyril NeckerOrphanage director L Linda CormierGrouchy guest S Stéphane GourdonChief surveyor J Jean-Marie SirgueSurveyor