| Passion for Life | |
| Director: | Jean-Paul Le Chanois |
| Producer: | Pierre Lévy-Corti |
| Starring: | Bernard Blier Juliette Faber Édouard Delmont |
| Music: | Joseph Kosma |
| Cinematography: | André Dumaître Marc Fossard Maurice Pecqueux |
| Editing: | Emma Le Chanois |
| Studio: | Coopérative Générale du Cinéma Français Union Générale Cinématographique |
| Distributor: | Alliance Générale de Distribution Cinématographique |
| Runtime: | 89 minutes |
| Country: | France |
| Language: | French |
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.[1] [2] [3] 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.
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.