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Les Choristes (Chorists) also called as The Chorus (US)/The Choir (UK) in English, is a 2004 film directed by Christophe Barratier. The plot is about a passionate music teacher who arrives at a correctional boarding school for boys and transforms their lives through music. The film stars Gérard Jugnot as the teacher, and Jean-Baptiste Maunier as one of his students, amusical prodigy. The movie is based on La Cage au Rossignols whose storyline is almost exactly like that of Les Cor

The motion picture explores the pain of a child's separation from his parents, and the transcendence of music as the greatest form of expression.

The Story

The movie opens in our era where a famous French singer receives the information that his mother has died. He continues with his concert, and then goes to here burial in France. He then goes to his home in France, and as the rain is pouring down someone knocks at the door. He asks the old singer "Don't you recognize me?" the Singer replies to this "No". The visitor then replies "C'est moi. Pépino." The singer then understands. The visitor (an old school friend) gives to the singer a file with their old school's pion's diaries. The story then switches to early 1949. We see the "pion" (Gérard Jugnot) coming to the gates of the Internat. We see face between the bars of the gates, a small boy (Péino, whom is the visitor to the singer) in our time. The Pion asks him what

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