Primary!

Primary!

2010 · 107 min · ★ 8.2 · Comedy

This explosive celebration of children's creativity follows the lives of students and their teachers in a peculiar yet somewhat recognizable primary school. When Jose Maria, more apt at lecturing fine arts at university than controlling a primary classroom, fills in his new post as art teacher, chaos seems on the verge of unleashing itself. However, the path that his young and infinitely imaginative little students take him through shows him there's more than a little he can learn from them, and a new life to discover...

Directed by Iván Noel · Written by Iván Noel

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Francisco Alfonsin Jose Maria
Maica Sánchez Angustias
Eva Rubio Idoia
Mercedes Suárez Aller Directora
Charo Urbano Madre Niño
Asencio Salas Otro Profesor
Marga Martínez Profesora / Psicóloga
Carmen Martín Arenas Carmen
Carlos Romero Gotor Carlos
José Joaquín Mena José Joaquín
Beatriz Robles de Acuña Beatriz

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