Zero for Conduct (Zero De Conduite)
1933 · Movie · 49 min. · France
So effervescent and charming that one can easily forget its importance in film history, Jean Vigo’s enormously influential portrait of prankish boarding-school students is one of cinema’s great acts of rebellion. Based on the director’s own experiences as a youth, Zéro de conduite presents childhood as a time of unfettered imagination and brazen rule-flouting. It’s a sweet-natured vision of sabotage made vivid by dynamic visual experiments—including the famous, blissful slow-motion pillow fight.
Direction Jean Vigo
Cast Louis Lefebvre · Gilbert Pluchon · Gérard de Bédarieux · Constantin Goldstein-Kehler · Jean Dasté · Robert Le Flon
Soundtrack Maurice Jaubert
Screenplay Jean Vigo
Cinematography Boris Kaufman
Original title Zéro de conduite: Jeunes diables au collège
Also known as Zero de Conduite · Zero for Conduct
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