What happens when you mix 30 kids, one new car, and zero adult supervision? Chaos.
A schoolteacher (Robert Dhéry) and his wife (Colette Brosset) use the couple's new car for a class field trip in this routine situation comedy. Soon the children are lost in this story written and directed by Jean L'Hôte taken from his own novel.
Acting
Dhéry and Brosset's married-couple chemistry crackles with real warmth.
Direction
L'Hôte keeps 30+ child actors somehow coherent and charming.
Director
Jean L'Hôte
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director L'Hôte adapted his own novel, keeping the autobiographical teaching experience intact.
This captures a specific post-war French educational optimism before May '68 shattered institutional trust.
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