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| Michel Galabru | ... | Le commissaire | |
| Maria Pacôme | ... | Lucie Jumaucourt (as Maria Pacome) | |
| Daniel Auteuil | ... | Baptiste Lavalle, alias Bebel | |
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Philippe Taccini | ... | Julien Senquin |
| Tonie Marshall | ... | Catherine Jumaucourt | |
| Hubert Deschamps | ... | Léon Jumaucourt | |
| Raymond Bussières | ... | Gaston (as Raymond Bussieres) | |
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Georges Anderson | ... | Le père de Togo |
| Féodor Atkine | ... | Le père de MC 2 (as Feodor Atkine) | |
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Henri Attal | ... | Mohammed |
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Gaëtan Bloom | ... | Gaëtan (as Gaetan Bloom) |
| Richard Bohringer | ... | Le pion | |
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Jean Cherlian | ... | Le menuisier (as Jean Cherian) |
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Etienne Draber | ... | Le père de Julien |
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Hélène Dublin | ... | Sarah (as Helene Dublin) |
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Baptiste 'Bebel' Lavalle and his classmates in Versailles' private high-school Louis XIV enjoy their carefree life enough to deliberately fail the exams, a national record of zero graduating pupils. Permissive headmaster Léon Jumaucourt's bitchy wife Lucie takes charge, determined to make them pass. She's no match for Bebel's tricks, despite cruel abuse, but the gang also annoys the public, including the dumb police commissioner. After a mix-up between their bomb-alert prop and a real terrorist group's African embassy attack, Bebel's bunch is condemned to pass their exams or go to jail, and the commissioner, charged with supervision, is in no mood to let them off easily. Written by KGF Vissers
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30 April 1980 (France) See more »Also Known As:
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Often subtitled "Les Sous-Doués passent le Bac" to distinguish it from its sequel. See more »Goofs
The prank with the hearing aid wouldn't work because the professor would hear his own amplified voice when saying "speak louder" to the pupils. See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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I saw this movie a couple of days ago on cable TV. Even though it's quite old, it remains funny all the same.
It's about a group of teenagers who are just too dumb to pass their imminent exams for their baccalaureate, and the tremendous effort by their teachers to make them learn the lesson by the deadline (They even use a "Learning Machine", which beats up every student for their wrong answers).
After a misunderstanding involving a bomb, they are forced to take their exams supervised by the police, so they manage to cheat using some really weird tricks, like elastic coats that, when stretched, reveal the answers. The best thing about this movie is that it's amusing from beginning to end, never taking itself seriously. For instance, when an officer finds the bomb, as soon as he shouts "I've found it!" it explodes, leaving his smoldering (and still standing!) skeleton among the ruins of the school building.