The Best Job in the World

The Best Job in the World

1996•1h 45m•5.6/10

ComedyDrama

Ratings

🎬TMDb

5.6/10(114)

To be closer to his children following his divorce, Laurent Monier, a history and geography teacher in a peaceful provincial high school, accepts a position in a sensitive college in the Paris suburbs. He is assigned the hardest class, the fourth techno, and he finds an apartment in the Cité des Muriers, a particularly difficult district.

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Production

DD Productions, Film Par Film, Orly Films, Prima Film, Sédif Productions, TF1 Films Production

Language

FR

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Gérard Depardieu

Gérard Depardieu

Laurent Monier

Ticky Holgado

Ticky Holgado

Baudoin

Michèle Laroque

Michèle Laroque

Hélène Monier

Souad Amidou

Souad Amidou

Radhia

Guy Marchand

Guy Marchand

Gauthier

Philippe Khorsand

Philippe Khorsand

Le concierge

Daniel Prévost

Daniel Prévost

Un voisin

Roschdy Zem

Roschdy Zem

Ahmed Raouch

Ouassini Embarek

Ouassini Embarek

Mouloud

Mouss Diouf

Mouss Diouf

Momo

Élodie Fontan

Élodie Fontan

Fanny

Jean-Pierre Clami

Jean-Pierre Clami

Barret

Kamel Cherif

Le barbu

Nordine Ouchene

Malik

Ali Inan

Ali

Faisal Attia

Faisal Attia

Nacir

Prisca Songo

Malou Keita

Laurent Jaubert

Aziz Raouch

Françoise Christophe

Françoise Christophe

Mme Davant, la mère d'Hélène

Vincent Solignac

Vincent Solignac

Rivet

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