Overview
The story centers around a graduating class of "less-gifted" students in a private Versailles high school. Only a miracle has brought the students this far along, and after a practical joke misfires and the whole school is dynamited, the students are in deep trouble. They have to present themselves in court for their punishment and it could not be worse: If they don't pass their high-school graduation exams, they go to prison!
Director and cast
- Claude Zidi Director
- Daniel Auteuil as Baptiste Laval, dit "Bébel"
- Michel Galabru as le commissaire
- Maria Pacôme as Lucie Jumaucourt
- Richard Bohringer as Le pion
- Philippe Taccini as Julien Senquin
- Hubert Deschamps as Léon Jumaucourt
- Raymond Bussières as Gaston Pourquier
- Étienne Draber as le père de Julien
- Tonie Marshall Cast
- Françoise Michaud Cast
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