School of Life
Paris 1930. Paul has only ever had one and the same horizon: the high walls of the orphanage, an austere building in the Parisian working class suburbs. Entrusted to a joyful country woman, Célestine, and her husband, Borel, the rather stiff gamekeeper of a vast estate in Sologne, the city child, recalcitrant and stubborn, arrives in a mysterious and disturbing world, that of a sovereign and wild region. The huge forest, misty ponds, heaths, and fields all belong to the Count de la Fresnaye, an elderly taciturn man who lives alone in his manor.
François Cluzet
Totoche
Jean Scandel
Paul Caradec
Eric Elmosnino
Borel
François Berléand
Count Louis Fernand de La Fresnaye
Valérie Karsenti
Célestine
Thomas Durand
Bertrand
Ilona Cabrera
Bella
Frédéric Saurel
Dédé
Urbain Cancelier
Lucien
Murielle Huet des Aunay
Montaine
Thierry Robard
Armand
Carolina Jurczak
Florence
Affif Ben Badra
Leader of the gypsies
Claudine Baschet
Gypsy granny
Christine Joly
Madeleine
Laurent Gerra
Gendarme
Matthieu Warter
Gendarme
Jean-François Pagès
Notary
Cyril Necker
Orphanage director
Linda Cormier
Grouchy guest
Stéphane Gourdon
Chief surveyor
Jean-Marie Sirgue
Surveyor