The Best Job in the World
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To be closer to his children following his divorce, Laurent Monier, a history and geography teacher in a peaceful provincial high school, accepts a position in a sensitive college in the Paris suburbs. He is assigned the hardest class, the fourth techno, and he finds an apartment in the Cité des Muriers, a particularly difficult district.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1996-12-11
Runtime: 105 mins
Director: Gérard Lauzier
Writer: Gérard Lauzier
Spoken language: Français
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Original title: The Best Job in the World
Production Companies: DD Productions, Film Par Film, Orly Films, Prima Film, Sédif Productions, TF1 Films Production
Production Countries: France
Cast
Gérard Depardieu
Ticky Holgado
Michèle Laroque
Souad Amidou
Guy Marchand
Philippe Khorsand
Daniel Prévost
Roschdy Zem
Ouassini Embarek
Mouss Diouf
Élodie Fontan
Jean-Pierre Clami
Kamel Cherif
Nordine Ouchene
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