Ducoboo is a very inventive dunce and joker, he is very resourceful at finding new ways to copy from his neighbor, to cheat or to defy the teacher's authority.
Practical Effects
Rube Goldberg cheating contraptions that would make Wile E. Coyote jealous.
Costume
Ducobu's perpetually askew tie — character design in one accessory.
Acting
Élie Semoun's exhausted Latouche: every teacher who's given up.
Director
Philippe de Chauveron
Élie Semoun
Gustave Latouche / Ghislaine Latouche
Joséphine de Meaux
Ghislaine Rateau
Vincent Claude
Ducobu
Juliette Chappey
Léonie Gratin
Héléna Noguerra
Adeline Gratin
Bruno Podalydès
Hervé Ducobu
Daphné Tarka
Karine
Vincent N'Diaye
Elvis
Vincent Scognamillo
Molas
Jean-François Gallotte
M. Busque
Edgar Givry
le directeur de St-Potache
Jean-Paul Bonnaire
Kitrich
Valériane de Villeneuve
la directrice de Lafontaine
François Levantal
le prof pension
Lise Lamétrie
Mlle Moute
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ducobu is France's beloved comic strip rascal since 1992 — think Dennis the Menace with better engineering skills and worse grades.
Élie Semoun plays both Latouche AND his twin sister Ghislaine, filmed separately and composited — a budget trick that became the film's weirdest running gag.
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