Zéro de conduite
So effervescent and charming that one can easily forget its importance in film history, Jean Vigo’s enormously influential portrait of prankish boarding-school students is one of cinema’s great acts of rebellion. Based on the director’s own experiences as a youth, Zéro de conduite presents childhood as a time of unfettered imagination and brazen rule-flouting. It’s a sweet-natured vision of sabotage made vivid by dynamic visual experiments—including the famous, blissful slow-motion pillow fight.
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Cast
- Jean Dasté
- Huguet
- Robert Le Flon
- Perrain (Old Tightass)
- Blanchar, a.k.a. Du Verron
- General supervisor (Beanpole)
- Delphin
- Headmaster
- Léon Larive
- M. Viot
- Madame Émile
- Ma Beans
- Louis de Gonzague-Frick
- Government prefect
- Louis Lefebvre
- Caussat
- Gilbert Pruchon
- Colin
- Coco Golstein/Constantin Kelber
- Bruel
- Gérard de Bédarieux
- Tabard
- Louis Berger
- Guardian
- Henri Storck
- Priest
Credits
- Director
- Jean Vigo
- Screenplay
- Jean Vigo
- Collaborators
- Albert Riéra
- Collaborators
- Henri Storck
- Collaborators
- Pierre Merle
- Sound
- Royné–Bocquel
- Director of photography
- Boris Kaufman
- Operator assistant
- Louis Berger
- Dialogue by
- Charles Goldblatt
- Music
- Maurice Jaubert
- Editing
- Jean Vigo