School of Life

School of Life

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 for School of Life...

Jean Scandel
Paul Caradec
François Berléand
Count Louis Fernand de La Fresnaye
Affif Ben Badra
Leader of the gypsies
Claudine Baschet
Gypsy granny
Cyril Necker
Orphanage director
Linda Cormier
Grouchy guest
Stéphane Gourdon
Chief surveyor