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The Best Job in the World(1996)
Status: Released
Date: 1996-12-11
56%
111 Votes
Time: 1h 45m
Overview:
To be closer to his children following his divorce, Laurent Monier, a history and geography teacher in a peaceful provincial high school, accepts a position in a sensitive college in the Paris suburbs. He is assigned the hardest class, the fourth techno, and he finds an apartment in the Cité des Muriers, a particularly difficult district.
Languages: French.
Countries:
France
ProductionCompanies: 
DD Productions
Film Par Film
Orly Films
Prima Film
Sédif Productions
Movie: The Best Job in the World
Top 10 Billed Cast
Gérard Depardieu
Laurent Monier
Ticky Holgado
Baudoin
Michèle Laroque
Hélène Monier
Souad Amidou
Radhia
Guy Marchand
Gauthier
Philippe Khorsand
Le concierge
Daniel Prévost
Un voisin
Roschdy Zem
Ahmed Raouch
Ouassini Embarek
Mouloud
Mouss Diouf
Momo
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Overview
To be closer to his children following his divorce, Laurent Monier, a history and geography teacher in a peaceful provincial high school, accepts a position in a sensitive college in the Paris suburbs. He is assigned the hardest class, the fourth techno, and he finds an apartment in the Cité des Muriers, a particularly difficult district.
Release Date
1996-12-11
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5.586
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