The Best Job in the World(1996)
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.
Movie: The Best Job in the World
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Laurent Monier
Baudoin
Hélène Monier
Radhia
Gauthier
Le concierge
Un voisin
Ahmed Raouch
Mouloud
Momo
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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.
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1996-12-11
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