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Topaze (1951)
Directed by Marcel Pagnol
Overview
Albert Topaze, sincere schoolteacher addicted to “rote” morality, works at a private school run by supremely money-grubbing M. Muche, whose daughter, also a teacher, makes cynical use of the knowledge that Topaze loves her. Alas, Topaze’s naive honesty brings him unjust dismissal…and makes him fair game for the “aunt” of his private pupil, really the mistress of crooked politician Regis, who needs an honest-seeming “front man.” Can artful Suzy Courtois keep Topaze on the string? With steadily escalating disillusion comes moral crisis…
Length 136 minutes
Actors
Fernandel | Hélène Perdrière | Marcel Vallée | Jacqueline Pagnol | Jacques Castelot | Milly Mathis | Yvette Etiévant | Robert Moor | Pierre Larquey | Jacques Morel | Rivers Cadet | Marcel Loche