La cage aux rossignols [videorecording] / Gaumont distribution présente ... un film de Jean Dréville ; mise en scène de Jean Dréville ; adaptation et dialogues de Noël-Noël ; scénario de Noël-Noël et René Wheeler ; d'après un synopsis original de G. Chaperot et Wheeler.
Noël-Noël, Micheline Francey, Les Petits Chanteurs à la croix de bois. Title from container. "[Copyright symbol] Gaumont 1945 - [Copyright symbol] Gaumont Vidéo 2004"-- Back of container and disc label. Originally released as a motion picture in 1945. Special features: "60 ans après": a conversation between Christophe Barratier, the director of Les choristes, and Roger Krebs, a singer in the original film (29 min.).
Summary:
In France during the early 1940s, a teacher in a center for troubled youths introduces them to singing, giving them back their lost honor and pride. The movie was filmed a week before D-Day in 1944. This is the original version of the 2004 French blockbuster "Les choristes".
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