Zero for Conduct

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Zero for Conduct ★★★★ Zero de Conduit 1933

Vigo's classic French fantasy about an outrageous rebellion of schoolboys against bureaucratic adults. More of a visual poem than a drama, it inspired Lindsay Anderson's “If….” One of only four films created by Vigo before his early death. Banned across Europe at release. In French with English subtitles. 49m/B VHS . FR Jean Daste, Robert Le Flon, Louis Lef'evre, Constantin Kelber, Gerard de Bedarieux; D: Jean Vigo; W: Jean Vigo; C: Boris Kaufman.

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