Profs

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Profs
Directed by Patrick Schulmann
Written by Patrick Schulmann
Starring Patrick Bruel
Fabrice Luchini
Laurent Gamelon
Christophe Bourseiller
Release date
  • 18 September 1985 (1985-09-18)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Box office$21.3 million [1]

Profs (sometimes stylized P.R.O.F.S) is a French comedy film directed by Patrick Schulmann and released on 18 September 1985.

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Plot

A young literature teacher, Frédéric Game, has very "cool" methods that separate from the high school where he has just arrived. With his friends Michel, Gérard and Francis, he decides to modify the traditions and renovate the high school. These teachers use anti-conformist educative methods :

The four acolytes will use of several stratagems to get rid of some teachers they judge harmful.

They will also use of a stratagem to stick Josiane, the librarian and Bonnet, the censor, making them pass for lovers at the sight of the director and numerous witnesses. Finally, Caroline Derieux, a biology teacher and in love with Frédéric, will have a suicide attempt during one of her classes when she will understand that he does not share her feelings. Frédéric is globally appreciated by his students, at the point that Guillaume, a student, becomes jealous of him, thinking that he covets Lætitia, a student of his class with whom he is himself in love with.

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About the film

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References

  1. "Profs (1985) - JPBox-Office".
  2. "Christophe Bourseiller : portrait d'un encyclopédiste des marges". Les Inrocks (in French).