The Teacher
Sep 13 2017
•2h 46m
•Comedy, Drama
Teacher in the most prestigious highschool in the country, François enjoys the life he’s always known, in the intellectual and bourgeois society of Paris. Trapped in a situation where he’s forced to accept a job in a school of a tough underprivileged suburb, he finds himself confronted to his own limits and to the upheaval of his values and certainties.
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Denis Podalydès
François Foucault
Abdoulaye Diallo
Seydou
Pauline Huruguen
Chloe, François' colleague
Alexis Moncorgé
Gaspard, Chloe's companion
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