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Zero for Conduct

film by Vigo [1933]

Also known as: “Zéro de conduite”

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In Jean Vigo
…directed Zéro de conduite (1933; Zero for Conduct), which was branded as “anti-French” by the censors, removed from the theatres after only a few months, and was not shown again in France until 1945. The moving story, set in a boy’s boarding school, explores the question of freedom versus authority…
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In history of film: France
…death: Zéro de conduite (Zero for Conduct, 1933) and L’Atalante (1934). Both are lyrical films about individuals in revolt against social reality. Their intensely personal nature is thought to have influenced the style of poetic realism that characterized French cinema from 1934 to 1940 and that is exemplified by…
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