The Best Job in the World
1996 · 1h 45m · N/A
Comedy, Drama
Directed by
Gérard Lauzier
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The Best Job in the World
Overview
To be closer to his children following his divorce, Laurent Monier, a history and geography teacher in a peaceful provincial high school, accepts a position in a sensitive college in the Paris suburbs. He is assigned the hardest class, the fourth techno, and he finds an apartment in the Cité des Muriers, a particularly difficult district.
Director and cast
- Gérard Lauzier Director
- Gérard Depardieu as Laurent Monier
- Ticky Holgado as Baudoin
- Michèle Laroque as Hélène Monier
- Souad Amidou as Radhia
- Guy Marchand as Gauthier
- Philippe Khorsand as Le concierge
- Daniel Prévost as Un voisin
- Roschdy Zem as Ahmed Raouch
- Ouassini Embarek as Mouloud
- Mouss Diouf as Momo
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