Zero for Conduct (1933) on Netflix
At a repressive French boarding school, Caussat, Colin and Bruel collect zeros for conduct. With a new supervisor who sympathizes, they plan a rebellion on Commemoration Day.
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Plot summary
At a repressive boarding school, teachers and monitors punish students with zeros for conduct and Sunday detention. Caussat and Colin return by train, playing pranks. On campus, Caussat, Colin and Bruel are singled out and become friends through their defiance. Most students see the headmaster and staff as authoritarian, inept or corrupt. A new supervisor, Huguet, sympathizes with the boys, imitates Charlie Chaplin and does handstands in class. He takes them into town, but another supervisor ends the outing and gives them another zero. They plan a rebellion at the celebration for important alumni and visitors.
Cast
- Robert le Flonas Surveillant Pète-Sec
- Du Verronas Surveillant-Général Bec-de-Gaz (as du Verron)
- Delphinas Principal du Collège
- Madame Émileas Mère Haricot (as Mme. Emile)
- Louis de Gonzagueas Préfet (as Louis de Gonzague-Frick)
- Gilbert Pruchonas Colin
- Constantin Goldstein-Kehleras Bruel (as Coco Golstein)
- Gérard de Bédarieuxas Tabard
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- Georges Belmeras Child (uncredited)
- Georges Bergeras Tutor (uncredited)
- Maurice Carielas Child (uncredited)
- Jean-Pierre Dumesnilas Child (uncredited)
- Michelle Fayardas Little Girl (uncredited)
- Igor Goldfarbas Child (uncredited)
- Albert Horliacas Night Watchman (uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Zero for Conduct (1933)
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- First shown on 7 April 1933, Jean Vigo's Zero for Conduct was banned in France and stayed banned until November 1945.
- François Truffaut paid homage to Zero for Conduct in The 400 Blows (1959), borrowing its anarchic classroom and recess scenes, and Lindsay Anderson said his own If.... (1968) was inspired by it.
- All four schoolboy leads were based on real people Jean Vigo had known: Caussat and Bruel on friends from Millau, Colin on a friend from Chartes, and Tabard on Vigo himself.
- The film's teachers were based on guards at La Petite Roquette juvenile prison, where director Jean Vigo's father, Miguel Almereyda, had once been an inmate.
- Tabard's line "shit on you!" to his teachers was once a famous headline in a French newspaper that Vigo's father had aimed at all world governments.
