The new teacher at a severely administered boys' boarding school works to positively affect the students' lives through music.The new teacher at a severely administered boys' boarding school works to positively affect the students' lives through music.The new teacher at a severely administered boys' boarding school works to positively affect the students' lives through music.
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7.8/10
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- Director
- Writers
- Georges Chaperot(1945 story "La Cage aux rossignols")
- René Wheeler(1945 story "La Cage aux rossignols")
- Noël-Noël(1945 screenplay "La Cage aux rossignols")
- Stars
- Director
- Writers
- Georges Chaperot(1945 story "La Cage aux rossignols")
- René Wheeler(1945 story "La Cage aux rossignols")
- Noël-Noël(1945 screenplay "La Cage aux rossignols")
- Stars
- Nominated for 2 Oscars
- 12 wins & 24 nominations total
- Director
- Writers
- Georges Chaperot(1945 story "La Cage aux rossignols")
- René Wheeler(1945 story "La Cage aux rossignols")
- Noël-Noël(1945 screenplay "La Cage aux rossignols")
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- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
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Did you know
- TriviaActor, co-producer Gérard Jugnot mortgaged his Paris apartment to help finance the film. The bet paid off, and he ended up making over 5 million euros for 'Les Choristes' as actor and co-producer. He earned the title of the highest-paid French actor in 2004, overtaking Jean Reno and Gérard Depardieu.
- GoofsDuring the auditions, Mathieu sends pupils to the right or to the left showing the direction by his hand. When directing Ricoeur, who sings "I've got tobacco in my pouch", to the left (at 33:06 to 33:07) he first moves his hand to his right, which some cite as an error while others cite it as a flourish, but then sweeps or hooks his hand left.
- Quotes
Violette Morhange: Do you have children?
Clément Mathieu: No. Well, yes, I have 60.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Interdit aux plus de 13 ans (2004)
- SoundtracksLes Choristes
Lyrics By Christophe Barratier
Music By Bruno Coulais
Orchestra: Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra-Sif 309, Conductor Deyan Pavlov'
© 2004 Warner Bros. Records,WEA Music (p) 2004 Galatée Films
Review
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A Real Choir MASTER
To the best of my knowledge Gerard Jugnot is completely unknown in England despite having acted in some 76 films, written 14 and directed 9. He was part of a group named Splendid who began in the cafe-theatres of Paris in the eighties and a fair percentage - Thierry Thermitte, Josiane Blasko are two names that will be familiar to both English and American audiences - have gone on to carve out successful movie and/or theater careers. Ironically, the second lead in The Choristes, Francois Berleand has appeared in several films that were seen outside France but the irony is that he could get a job tomorrow as a Richard Dreyfus look-alike and it was, of course, Dreyfus who starred in Mr.Holland's Opus, the film to which the Choristes is destined to be compared if not measured against. Currently this entry is making a lot of noise at the French Box Office and deservedly so if anybody asks you. Jugnot strikes just the right note (not really sorry about that) as the new teacher on the block in a school for hard cases but unlike Richard Dadier (or, Glenn Ford, whichever is the greater) his attempts to reach the kids via music is NOT abortive. For those who can't resist footnotes to other movies this one also has a touch of the Cinema Paradisos inasmuch as it begins with the death of a mentor and a now Internationally successful artist (for movie director read conductor) reminisces about his childhood and the influence upon it of said mentor. In a perfect world this movie WILL be shown in England and/or America and a great many more mavens will know what the cognoscenti have known for years, that Jugnot can make it even without the Paycock. 9/10
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- Apr 14, 2004
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- Also known as
- Los coristas
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- Budget
- €5,500,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $3,635,164
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $18,355
- Jan 16, 2005
- Gross worldwide
- $88,385,944
- Runtime1 hour 37 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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