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◎Title: The Chorus

◎Chinese title: The Spring of the Cowherd Class/Chorus Class Boy

◎Era 2004

◎Country France/Switzerland/Germany

◎Category Romance/Drama/Music

◎Language French

◎Korean subtitles

◎IMDB rating 7.7/10 (2,477 votes)

◎IMDB link/title/tt0372824/

◎File format x264 DTS

◎Video size 640 x 272

◎File size 2CD 2x49x15MB

◎Length 96 Mins

◎Director Christophe Baratier

◎Starring Gérard Jugnot .... Clément Mathieu

Francis Berland Fran ?ois Berléand .... Rachin

Jean-Baptiste Maunier .... Pierre Morhange enfant

Jacques Perrin .... Pierre Morhange adulte

Kad Merad .... Chabert

Marie Bunel .... Violette Morhange

Philippe Du Janerand .... Langlois

Jean-Paul Bonnaire .... Maxence

Maxence Perrin .... Pépinot enfant

Didier Flamand .... Pépinot adulte

Grégory Gatignol .... Mondain

Cyril Bernicot .... Le Querrec

Carole Weiss .... La comtesse

Paul Chariéras .... Régent

Thomas Blumenthal .... Corbin

◎Introduction

The world-famous conductor Pierre Morhange (Jacques Perrin) returns to his hometown in France to attend his mother’s visit At his funeral, his old friend (Dedia Ferramon) gave him an old diary. He looked at the diary left by his first music teacher Clement Mathieu (Gerard Junno). After reading the diary, Pierre slowly savored the teacher's state of mind at that time, and scenes of childhood memories emerged from the depths of his memory...

Clement is a talented musician. However, in the French countryside in 1949, he had no chance to develop his talents, and eventually became an assistant teacher at a boys' boarding school. This school was nicknamed "The Bottom of the Pool" because most of the students here were in difficulties. Troubled problem children.

After arriving, Clement discovered that the school's principal (Francois Berleand) used cruel and high-pressure methods to manage this group of troubled teenagers. Corporal punishment was common here. Clement, who had a calm personality, tried to improve the situation in his own way. In his spare time, he would compose some choral songs, but to his surprise, there were no music classes in this boarding school. He decided to use music to open the closed hearts of the students.

Clement began to teach the students how to sing, but things did not go smoothly. One of the biggest troublemakers was Pierre Moanchi (Jean-Baptiste Maunier). Pierre has the face and singing voice of an angel but a troublesome personality. The seductive Clement discovers Pierre's musical talent. At the same time, he also develops a subtle relationship with Pierre's mother.

Behind-the-scenes introduction

When Christopher Bahoutia completed directing his first short film, he actively looked for a good story to shoot his first feature film. It turned out that he had already identified this in his heart. The movie must be related to his childhood experience between the ages of 4 and 8, and it is best to have music as the theme. Therefore, this combination naturally reminds him of the musical movie "A Cage of Nightingales" he watched when he was 7 or 8 years old. He was deeply affected by this movie at that time. He was deeply moved by the work. Although he has forgotten most of the plot of the film more than 30 years later, the charm and essence of the film still remain in his heart, so he decided to remake this 1945 film.

He was widely searched for the leading role

Bahatia did not want to just use a child actor from the beginning. He hoped to find a real singer to play the protagonist Pierre. Although he knew that this candidate was not easy to find, he still kept searching hard. In March 2003, he and his producer traveled across the country and finally discovered Jean-Baptiste Maunier, a 12-year-old boy with a sweet voice and a pleasing appearance in the children's choir of St. Mark's School in Lyons. After Ya invited him to audition, he immediately identified him as the best candidate to play the leading role.

When selecting other chorus members in the film, Bahatiar did not want to use professional child actors. He used his staff to find 2,000 potential children from elementary schools and junior high schools near the filming location. After the audition, 65 children aged 8 to 13 who had no acting experience but were naturally spontaneous were selected. The film's producer Jacques Perrin's son Maxence is also participating in a film for the first time. He plays the childhood role of the protagonist's friend Pepinot in the film.

Innovative music breaks through the tradition

As Bruno Coulais, who scored the film, said, music is the theme of the film, so director Christopher Bahatija made the film as early as September 2002. Nine months before filming started, he started working on the music part of the film with Coulais. Bahatia wanted to avoid the feeling of an ordinary children's choir and sing traditional songs like Christmas carols. He wanted the music to be full of strong feeling and Almost all of them were original, and the two of them ended up co-composing several songs for the film.

Bahatia said in an interview: “Since the music we hear in the story comes from the character of music teacher Clement Mathieu, we made corresponding changes in the type of music according to the evolution of the character. "Making this movie is like making a musical." Coulais said that Nicolas Porte, who served as the choir conductor for the film, gave great support. Of course, what's more important is the children's outstanding performance in music. After everyone's hard work, the singing part was recorded before the movie started, and finally added melodious and melodious orchestral music.

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