The Best Job in the World

The Best Job in the World

1996 · 105 min · ★ 5.6 · Comedy, Drama

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.

Directed by Gérard Lauzier · Written by Gérard Lauzier

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