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The Little Professor

1958 · 88 min

A gentle, good-humoured French comedy that ambles along pleasantly, charming you with its optimism rather than surprising you with plot.

Directed by
Carlo Rim
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Darry Cowl, Yves Robert, Rosy Varte
Overview
Naturally optimistic and mischievous, Jérôme Aubin crossed the time of his adolescence, around 1945, with ease and good humor. The years passed. He married the pretty Françoise, a little neighbor he had known since the age of eight, and soon found himself a secondary school teacher, a little anxious at the thought of facing for the first time students he had been told were particularly turbulent. How will he master this new difficulty? Better than you'd think, thanks to a delicious optimism: boldly going against the grain of conventional methods, he surprises his young audience, thwarting the plans of the dissipated gossips and turning their most tendentious attitudes to his advantage. All this provokes astonishment and concern among the college's leaders. But Jérôme Aubin is no pushover, and even the dreaded general supervisor finds himself obliged to give in to his most audacious initiatives...

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Directed by
Carlo Rim
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Darry Cowl, Yves Robert, Rosy Varte
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Tone
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • education
  • coming-of-age
  • family
  • identity
  • friendship
Places
  • school
  • small town
Era
period
Audience
family
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
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Action1
Horror0
Humour6
Realism7
Romance3
Tension2
Darkness1
Complexity3
Emotional weight3

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Genres
comedy
Directed by
Carlo Rim
Written by
Carlo Rim
Starring
Darry Cowl, Yves Robert, Rosy Varte, René Blancard, Christiane Barry, Mathilde Casadesus, Edmond Beauchamp, Francis Blanche
Runtime
88 min
Country
France
Languages
French

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