FAREWELL MY TEACHER

MON MAÎTRE D'ECOLE

By Emilie THÉROND

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Documentary - Completed 2016

When Marcel Pagnol meets "The Class"

    • Year of production
    • 2016
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • FRANCE
    • Languages
    • FRENCH
    • Duration
    • 80 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Emilie THÉROND
    • Producer(s)
    • François-Xavier DEMAISON (B2Films )
    • Synopsis
    • An intimate and touching portrait of transmission, a universal story that belongs to everyone. In our childhood, we’ve all known that one-and-only teacher!

      Jean-Michel Burel has spent 40 years teaching in the unique class of the same village in Saint-Just-et-Vacquières (in the South of France). He retired in 2012. Director Emilie Thérond decided to go back to her childhood village to follow the last year of Burel’s career. Jean-Michel is more than a teacher. He does not only teach reading or math but also poetry, the horror of the 2 World Wars, the freedom of speech, the joy of a walk around oak trees or the reasons why seasons are important.