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Released
2008 · FILM

The Class

A dedicated middle‑school teacher strives to earn the respect and trust of his racially diverse, troubled Parisian students, battling cultural clashes and institutional pressures that threaten both their futures.

The greatest lessons are learnt when life enters the classroom.

Directed by
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
128 min
Language
FR
Drama

Synopsis

François Bégaudeau, a teacher and novelist, portrays a version of himself in a film that follows his year spent with a racially diverse group of students from a challenging neighborhood in Paris.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Robin CampilloShot by Pierre Milon

Box Office

2008 · Box office

Grossed $28.8M worldwide

Worldwide gross

$28.8M

Worldwide gross$28.8M

US & Canada: $3.8M 13% of worldwide · International: $25.0M (87%)

Also known as

  • Die Klassede
  • Zwischen den Mauernde
  • The Classen
  • La classeit
  • La classe - Entre les mursit

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