Passion for Life (film)

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.[1][2][3] 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.

Passion for Life
Directed byJean-Paul Le Chanois
Written byElise Freinet
Jean-Paul Le Chanois
Produced byPierre Lévy-Corti
StarringBernard Blier
Juliette Faber
Édouard Delmont
CinematographyAndré Dumaître
Marc Fossard
Maurice Pecqueux
Edited byEmma Le Chanois
Music byJoseph Kosma
Production
companies
Coopérative Générale du Cinéma Français
Union Générale Cinématographique
Distributed byAlliance Générale de Distribution Cinématographique
Release date
  • 8 April 1949 (1949-04-08)
Running time
89 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Synopsis

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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.

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Bibliography

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  • 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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