Passion for Life (French: L'école buissonnière) is a 1949 French comedy drama film directed by Jean-Paul Le Chanois and starring Bernard Blier, Juliette Faber and Édouard Delmont.Rège p.606https://www.unifrance.org/film/2838/l-ecole-buissonniereCrisp p.175 It was shot at the Victorine Studios in Nice and on location around Saint-Jeannet, Vence and Gattières. The film's sets were designed by the art director Claude Bouxin.
Synopsis In 1920 a young teacher and Great War veteran of liberal views arrives in a small French town in Provence to take up a position in the local school. His new way of teaching which places great emphasis on the happiness of the students, ruffles the feathers of the more conservative elements in town who try to have him dismissed.
Cast Bernard Blier as Buffle Pascal, l'instituteur Juliette Faber as Lise Arnaud, l'institutrice Édouard Delmont as M. Arnaud, le vieux maître Edmond Ardisson as Le coiffeur Pourpre Henri Arius as Le maire Hector Malicorne Bréols as Aristide Géo Beuf as Honoré Georges Cahuzac as Cornille Jean-Louis Allibert as M. St. Saviole, Le 'novateur' Louis Lions as Félix Louisol as Le menuisier Marcel Maupi as M. Alexandre, the pharmacist Rilda as Le facteur Sicard as Tordo Danny Caron as Cécile Simonin Jenny Hélia as Mme Honoré Jeanne Mars as Adélaïde Marthe Marty as Mélanie Raymone as L'aveugle Marcel Alba as Un examinateur Lucien Callamand as L'examinateur de calcul Gaston Modot as L'examinateur de Français Henri Poupon as L'examinateur d'histoire Jean Aquistapace as L'antiquaire La Verdière Pierre Coste as Albert Simonin, le grand chef
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Bibliography Bessy, Maurice & Chirat, Raymond. Histoire du cinéma français: encyclopédie des films, 1940–1950. Pygmalion, 1986 Crisp, Colin. French Cinema—A Critical Filmography: Volume 2, 1940–1958. Indiana University Press, 2015. Rège, Philippe. Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
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