School of Life

Plot

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

François Cluzet

Totoche

Jean Scandel

Paul Caradec

Éric Elmosnino

Borel

François Berléand

Count Louis Fernand de La Fresnaye

Valérie Karsenti

Célestine

Thomas Durand

Bertrand

Ilona Cabrera

Bella

Frédéric Saurel

Dédé

Urbain Cancelier

Lucien

Murielle Huet des Aunay

Montaine

Thierry Robard

Armand

Carolina Jurczak

Florence

Affif Ben Badra

Leader of the gypsies

Claudine Baschet

Gypsy granny

Christine Joly

Madeleine