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The Under-Gifted
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!
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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!
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Genre:Comedy
Written By:Michel Fabre, Claude Zidi, Didier Kaminka
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Runtime:92 minutes
Studio:Films 7
Cast
Claude Zidi
Director
Daniel Auteuil
Baptiste Lavalle, dit « Bébel »
Michel Galabru
M. Grasset, commissaire de police
Maria Pacôme
Lucie Jumaucourt, directrice du cours Louis XIV, professeur de philosophie
Philippe Taccini
Julien Senquin
Hubert Deschamps
Léon Jumaucourt, professeur des matières scientifiques
Raymond Bussières
Gaston Pourquier
Étienne Draber
Le père de Julien, docteur en médecine
Tonie Marshall
Catherine Jumaucourt, professeur d'Histoire-Géographie
Richard Bohringer
Le pion lors de l'épreuve de Maths
Françoise Michaud
Caroline Janin, petite amie de Julien
Gaëtan Bloom
Gaëtan
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