A Cage of Nightingales
- Noël- Noël: Clément Mathieu
- Micheline Francey: Martine
- Georges Biscot: Raymond
- René Génin: Father Maxence
- René Blancard: Monsieur Rachin
- Marguerite Ducouret: Mother Micheline
- Marcelle Praince: President
- Math Mellot: Marie
- Georges Paulais: Monsieur Langlois
- André Nicolle: Monsieur de la Frade
- Richard Francoeur: Monsieur de Mézères
- Jean Morel: Director
- Roger Vincent: Academician
- Michel François: Laquerec
- Roger cancer: Laugier
- Petits Chanteurs à la Croix de Bois: student
The nightingale cage ( original title La Cage aux Rossignol ) is a French film from 1945, directed by Jean Dréville. It tells the story of a young teacher who meets the orphan boys on a authoritarian boarding school with love and understanding and can win their trust, even with the help of music. The screenplay by René Wheeler and Noël- Noël is based on the original story by Georges Chaperot.
2004 filmed Christophe Barratier the story also and gave her the title The Les Choristes.
Action
The writer Clément Mathieu remembers back to the time when no one wanted to move his novel " The Nightingale King". Together with his friend Raymond it was him at the time managed to still find a path whose end was the publication of the story of his life. Cost the loyal friend then his position at the newspaper that he launched Mathieu's novel through a deliberate confusion in the newspaper. The novel itself hit with readers a sensationally good and was a great success. The story begins with the fact that Mathieu is treated as a young teacher at a boarding school for orphan boys, in which the children are grabbed me hard and relentless rigor is the maxim. Mathieu has a different idea of the profession of a teacher and the boy met with understanding and kindness. Little by little he manages to gain the trust of suspicious children, while the music plays a significant role. Mathieu has recognized the potential of some very talented boys and founded a choir, which raises the self-esteem of boys and soon is very successful. As Mathieu gets to know through one of his students Martine, he falls in love with her, and the young woman returns his love.
But then something happens, what gives his life a new direction. As Mathieu makes an excursion with the children entrusted to him, breaking a fire from the boarding school and destroyed it. Although it is a happy coincidence that Mathieu was with the boy, because then none of the children takes damage, this trip means that you can prove Mathieu that he has made without proof of permission to do something with the children. Since his unconventional methods are some of the authoritarian teacher already an eyesore, which means that Mathieu must leave the institution and help the children and his choir. Out of this desperation, he finds with Martines Help the strength to handle in his work " The nightingale cage " the experience.
And when Martine and he married his former pupils sing in the church, which is a very special gift for Mathieu.
Background
The film was in France on September 6, 1945 premiere. In Germany he ran in 1947, in Austria on 21 March 1947. In the United States he had in New York Premiere on April 2, 1947 under the title A Cage of Nightingales.
The story told here is based on records that the team in Ker Goat, which was worked, outlined to determine the impact can have choral singing and innovative teaching methods to the development of children with behavior problems. Jean Drévilles film The nightingale King was the model for Christophe Barra animal award-winning film The Les Choristes. Barratier said in an interview when he was asked why he had chosen for his first feature film Drévilles template from the year 1945 that he had seen this movie at the age of seven or eight years on television and was it " deeply moved ". He said that even if the film today zutagen was largely forgotten, had " survived but his charm. " And since this film was at the time not even showered in French cinema with " hymns " that he had ventured an adaptation. He raised still shows that the " most vivid memories that would have affected him, the emotions " were who were "triggered by the voices of the children " with him.
Reviews
The lexicon of the International film was that the story of the film " in the form of a biography tells lively, sometimes amusing and serious concern " was.
In Spiegel Online is read (taken mirror 5/1947 ), there could be a " reading book story," but was not. Psychologically is all quite true. It is also not a social indictment. It is just so that there was such a thing and continue [ ... ]: "So [ is ] by the way originated here a small cinematic masterpiece. Very unobtrusive, without affectation, just beautiful. "
Awards
At the Academy Awards 1948, Georges Chaperot and René Wheeler in the category "Best Original Story " nominated for an Oscar, but had to Valentine Davies defeated, the ( Miracle on 34th Street) won the Oscar for his Christmas movie The Miracle of Manhattan.