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Zero for Conduct

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Zero for Conduct
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NR,49min
Genres:
Drama,Comedy
Release:
1933
Director:
Jean Vigo
Distributor:
Cine Classics
Starring:
Jean Dasté, Delphin, Robert Le Flon  ...more
Synopsis: The shortest of French filmmaker Jean Vigo's two feature-length films, Zero for Conduct (Zero de Conduite) is also arguably his most influential. The overtly autobiographical plotline takes place at a painfully strict boys' boarding school, presided over by such petit-bourgeous tyrants as a discipline-dispensing dwarf. The students revolt against the monotony of their daily routine by erupting into a outsized pillow fight. Their final assault occurs during a prim-and-proper school ceremony, wherein ... Full Synopsis
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Lucia Bozzola, AMG Review
A brash link between 1920s Surrealist films and 1930s poetic realism, Jean Vigo's 44-minute Zéro de conduite (1933) became an influential paean to youthful freedom. Drawing on Vigo's years at boarding school after the murder of his anarchist father, his first fiction film celebrated a schoolboy revolt against their repressive instructors and midget principal. Alternately comic, serious, dreamlike, ... Full Review
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Jean Dasté
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Delphin
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Robert Le Flon
Monitor 'Pete-Sec'
Louis Lefebvre
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