THE CHORISTERS

PRESENT BY: ANGIE VIVIANA TORRES

THE CHORISTERS

“ACTION AND REACTION FROM TEACHER IN HIS PEDAGOGY REALITY”

GENERALITIES: ORIGINAL TITLE: THEY CHORISTES PRODUCTION: FRANCE 2004 THE DIRECTOR: CHISTOPHE BARRATIER PHOTOGRAPHS: CARLO VARINI MUSIC: DARK COULAIS GENERATE: DRAMA DURATION: 97 MINUTES

PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS

MATHIEU

PEPINOT

FOND THE LETANG

MORHANGE

RACHIN

This movie is based on a royal history, set immediately after the World War II, the shortage and the economic penuries of the war

reverberate directly inside the school and are a reality that appears during the movie.

Everything begins with two childhood friends they meet again after years. One of them shows the diary to other one written in 1949 for an instructor of the school to which they were going when were small . And

it is, exactly, the voice of that teacher the conductive thread of the plot.

Clement Mathieu, is the teacher of music who in 1949 begins to be work at a minors' boarding school.

Soon he knows the repressive methods of the director, Rachin, who

domesticates his pupils on the basis of firm hand: action and

reaction!, because of it to Mathieu it it is surprised the raw reality of

the routine of the school, and the methods used by the director in his

attempt of imposing discipline, in turn that this him awake pity for the

boys.

Mathieu, begins to look for tools to be gained the children organizing

with them a choir polyphonic that prompt provides to the whole class a new

zeal of overcoming. The music attracts powerfully the interest of the

students, for which it submits to the task of them being of interest in the

singing

He can to form with them the choir and, thanks to the power and the magic

of the music, the teacher achieves that his lives change forever.

Why this movie?

Because it introduces us in the pedagogic world and in the educational environments of the school. It is impossible for the spectator do not turn reflected in the history. First from the

vision of the infancy, silent witnesses of the life in the classroom.

In the second instance, the vision of the adult that certainly, it generates identity, reflection and self-criticism.

THE END………