| Description |
1 videodisc (approximately 104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| System Details |
DVD; widescreen presentation, 16 x 9 letterboxed. |
| Performer |
L'instituteur [teacher] Georges Lopez; les enfants de la classe [children in the class] Alizé, Axel, Guillaume, Jesse, Johan (Jojo), Johann, Jonathan, Julien, Laura, Létitia, Marie-Elizabeth, Nathalie, Olivier. |
| Credits |
Image [photography], Katell Djian, Laurent Didier ; caméra et montage [camera and editing], Nicolas Philibert ; musique originale [original music], Philippe Hersant. |
| Note |
Originally released as a French motion picture in 2002. |
| Audience |
MPAA rating: Not rated. |
| Summary |
This film chronicles a year in the life of a one-room schoolhouse in rural France, presided over by Georges Lopez, a devoted teacher responsible for nurturing a dozen children ages 3-11. The film sees the teacher as artist, and presents teaching as a form of love. Because along with reading, writing, and arithmetic, the children learn about what we think of as the basic values of civilization: reason, tolerance, learning, cooperation, and comradeship. In one year, one dedicated teacher, sensitive to children's educational and emotional needs, exemplifies the importance of an abiding faith in children, and in education as a vocation. |
| Contents |
Opening credits -- Winter's morning -- Little ones -- Dictation -- Finished, Jojo? -- Crepes -- Stolen erasers -- Sorting things out -- Math homework -- Seven -- Her own world -- Stopping it all -- Dirty hands -- Obliged to succeed -- Ami and Amie -- Middle school -- Heart to heart -- Fieldtrip -- New kids -- Sticking together. |
| Note |
Special features: Entretien avec Nicolas Philibert [Interview with] (21 min.); Theatrical trailer [English] (3 min.); French trailer (2 min.); Poésies [Poetry recitation] (3 min.). |
| Language |
In French with optional subtitles in English. |
| Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
| Subject |
Child development.
|
|
School children -- France -- Auvergne.
|
|
Elementary school teachers -- France -- Auvergne.
|
|
Elementary school teaching -- France -- Auvergne.
|
|
Male elementary school teachers -- France -- Auvergne.
|
| Indexed Term |
Professeurs scolaires élémentaires virils France Auvergne |
| Genre/Form |
Documentary films.
|
|
Nonfiction films.
|
|
Foreign films.
|
|
Motion pictures, French.
|
| Added Author |
Sandoz, Gilles. Producer.
|
|
Philibert, Nicolas, 1951-
|
|
Lopez, Georges.
|
|
Djian, Katell.
|
|
Didier, Laurent.
|
|
Hersant, Philippe. Composer.
|
|
Maïa Films.
|
|
Arte France cinéma (Firm)
|
|
Films d'ici (Firm)
|
|
Centre national de documentation pédagogique (France)
|
|
Studio Canal+.
|
|
Centre national de la cinématographie (France)
|
|
Gimages 4 (Firm)
|
|
New Yorker Video (Firm)
|
| Added Title |
To be and to have |
| ISBN |
1567303668 |
|
9781567303667 |
| Standard No. |
717119870447 |
| Music No. |
DVD87004 New Yorker Video |
|
