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Zéro de Conduite (1933)
Director: Jean Vigo
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From Time Out Film Guide
Vigo's anarchic, disorienting vision of life in a French boarding school, banned until 1945 when Vigo had been dead for eleven years. Outwardly it appears to be an accurate picture; and yet nothing is real. The teachers, their idiosyncrasies appropriately magnified, are seen through the eyes of their pupils. The boys' revolt against mindless discipline culminates in a surreal battle in the playground on speech day. Thirty years later, Lindsay Anderson re-used the same symbols in his own attack on the Establishment, If....Author: DMcG
Cast & crew
Director: Jean Vigo
Cast: Louis Lefèvre, Gilbert Pluchon, Gérard de Bédarieux, Constantin Goldstein-Kehler, Jean Dasté, Robert Le Flon full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 44 mins
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