Passion for Life (film)

Passion for Life (French: L'école buissonnière) is a 1949 French comedy drama film directed by Jean-Paul Le Chanois and starring Bernard Blier, Juliette Faber and Édouard Delmont. It was shot at the Victorine Studios in Nice and on location around Saint-Jeannet, Vence and Gattières. The film's sets were designed by the art director Claude Bouxin.

Synopsis
In 1920 a young teacher and Great War veteran of liberal views arrives in a small French town in Provence to take up a position in the local school. His new way of teaching which places great emphasis on the happiness of the students, ruffles the feathers of the more conservative elements in town who try to have him dismissed.

Cast

 * Bernard Blier as 	Buffle Pascal, l'instituteur
 * Juliette Faber as 	Lise Arnaud, l'institutrice
 * Édouard Delmont as 	M. Arnaud, le vieux maître
 * Edmond Ardisson as 	Le coiffeur Pourpre
 * Henri Arius as 	Le maire Hector Malicorne
 * Bréols as Aristide
 * Géo Beuf as 	Honoré
 * Georges Cahuzac as 	Cornille
 * Jean-Louis Allibert as 	M. St. Saviole, Le 'novateur'
 * Louis Lions as 	Félix
 * Louisol as Le menuisier
 * Marcel Maupi as M. Alexandre, the pharmacist
 * Rilda as 	Le facteur
 * Sicard as Tordo
 * Danny Caron as 	Cécile Simonin
 * Jenny Hélia as 	Mme Honoré
 * Jeanne Mars as 	Adélaïde
 * Marthe Marty as 	Mélanie
 * Raymone as 	L'aveugle
 * Marcel Alba as 	Un examinateur
 * Lucien Callamand as 	L'examinateur de calcul
 * Gaston Modot as 	L'examinateur de Français
 * Henri Poupon as 	L'examinateur d'histoire
 * Jean Aquistapace as 	L'antiquaire La Verdière
 * Pierre Coste as 	Albert Simonin, le grand chef