The Class ( Entre les murs )

The Class (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Entre les murs
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
European Film Awards
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
122 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Commentary
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Special Edition

Movie filmed in 2008 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Laurent Cantet

Written By:
François Bégaudeau

Actors:
François Bégaudeau ..... François Marin
Arthur Fogel ..... Arthur
Boubacar Toure ..... Boubacar
Cherif Bounaïdja Rachedi ..... Cherif
Dalla Doucoure ..... Dalla
Damien Gomes ..... Damien
Eva Paradiso ..... Eva
Juliette Demaille ..... Juliette
Laura Baquela ..... Laura
Louise Grinberg ..... Louise
Nassim Amrabt ..... Nassim
Rabah Nait Oufella ..... Rabah
Cécile Lagarde ..... Les Profs - Cécile
Frédérique Alles
Valérie Benguigui
Jean-François Chauvet
Mario Fanfani
Adeline Fogel ..... La mére d'Arthur
Gilles Gourmelen
Anne Langlois ..... Les Profs - Sophie
Farida Ouchani
Olivier Pasquier ..... L'intendant

Synopsis:

The greatest lessons are learnt when life enters the classroom.

The tense environment of a tough inner-city school where cultures and attitudes often clash is revealed in this award-winning drama based on François Bégaudeau's best-selling novel Between the Walls. Bégaudeau himself stars as an idealistic teacher of a class of unruly 15 year-olds, whose spiky independence present a constant challenge to his sometimes unconventional teaching methods. Featuring an outstanding non-professional cast of real teachers and students, Laurent Cantet's gripping and sharply observed film offers a microcosm of contemporary society and explores the issues and challenges of education today.

Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.

Drama. A teacher working in a high school in a tough neighbourhood, must rise to the challenge when his students start to question his teaching methods.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 13 July, 2009.