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Truant School

Truant School

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Status

Released

Release Date

Apr 8, 1949

Runtime

1h 29m

Genres

Drama, Comedy

User Score

73%

Original Title

L'École buissonnière

Production Companies

UGC Films, Coopérative Générale du Cinéma Français

Director

Jean-Paul Le Chanois

Description

1920, in a small village in Provence. Monsieur Pascal, a young schoolteacher, is faced with a lack of interest from his pupils. He decides to radically change the methods employed by his predecessor. He listens to the children, draws inspiration from their discoveries and takes them out into nature. The pupils will rediscover the pleasure of learning, and he will rediscover the pleasure of teaching. But some parents and notables don't take kindly to this little revolution.