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A Cage of Nightingales

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Director
  
Jean Dreville

Genres
  
Music, Drama

Language
  
French

6.8/10
IMDb

Music director
  
Rene Cloerec

Duration
  

Country
  
France

A Cage of Nightingales movie poster

Writer
  
,
Rene Wheeler
,
Noel-Noel

Release date
  
September 6, 1945 (1945-09-06)

Cast
  
(Clément Mathieu), (Le père Maxence), (Micheline), (Monsieur Rachin)

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A Cage of Nightingales (French: La Cage aux rossignols) is a 1945 French film directed by Jean Dréville. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story, and served as an inspiration for the film The Chorus (2004).

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Synopsis

Clement Mathieu seeks to publish his novel without success. With the help of a friend who is a journalist, his story about the 'Cage of Nightingales' is slipped surreptitiously into a newspaper...

In France, in the 1930s, a supervisor at a rehabilitation house awakens difficult teens' inner musical tendencies by forming a choir, despite the director's skepticism. Later, this experience is reported in a novel in a major newspaper.

The history of the 'Cage of Nightingales' is directly inspired by that of an actual educational centre, called Ker Goat, where Jacques Dietz, Roger Riffier and their teams worked to help children in difficulty through choral singing and innovative teaching methods.

Cast

  • Noël-Noël as Clément Mathieu
  • Micheline Francey as Micheline
  • Georges Biscot as Raymond
  • René Génin as Le père Maxence
  • René Blancard as Monsieur Rachin
  • Marguerite Ducouret as La mère de Micheline
  • Marcelle Praince as La présidente
  • Marthe Mellot as Marie
  • Georges Paulais as Monsieur Langlois
  • André Nicolle as Monsieur de la Frade
  • Richard Francoeur as Monsieur de Mézères
  • Jean Morel as Le directeur
  • Roger Vincent as L'académicien
  • Michel François as Lequerec
  • Roger Krebs as Laugier
  • Reception

    The film was the second most popular movie at the French box office in 1945.

    References

    A Cage of Nightingales Wikipedia
    A Cage of Nightingales IMDb A Cage of Nightingales themoviedb.org