Set in a suburb of north-east Paris between December 1935 and July 1936 during the “revolutionary” period of the Popular Front (which introduced the first paid holidays and a shorter working week). Three unemployed performers decide to take over by force the music hall where they worked a few months earlier and stage a show there.

With: Gérard Jugnot, Clovis Cornillac, Kad Merad, Nora Arnezeder, Pierre Richard, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Maxence Perrin.

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An inspirational story in the rich tradition of MUSIC OF THE HEART and MR. HOLLAND’S OPUS, THE CHORUS has moved critics everywhere to declare it one of the year’s very best films! When he takes a job teaching music at a school for troubled boys, Clément Mathieu is unprepared for its harsh discipline and depressing atmosphere. But with passion and unconventional teaching methods, he’s able to spark his students’ interest in music and bring them a newfound joy! It also puts him at odds with the school’s overbearing headmaster, however, locking Mathieu in a battle between politics and the determination to change his pupils’ lives!

Wth: Gérard Jugnot, François Berléand, Jean-Baptiste Maunier, Marie Bunel, Kad Merad.

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