The Best Job in the World

Dec 11, 1996

1h 45m

★ 5.6

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.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

DD Productions

Film Par Film

Orly Films

Prima Film

Sédif Productions

TF1 Films Production

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Cast

Laurent Monier

Gérard Depardieu

Baudoin

Ticky Holgado

Hélène Monier

Michèle Laroque

Radhia

Souad Amidou

Gauthier

Guy Marchand

Le concierge

Philippe Khorsand

Un voisin

Daniel Prévost

Ahmed Raouch

Roschdy Zem

Mouloud

Ouassini Embarek

Momo

Mouss Diouf

Fanny

Élodie Fontan

Barret

Jean-Pierre Clami

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