Les choristes

a)  mention 10 facts about Les Choristes

1.-The Château de Ravel is a castle situated in the commune of Ravel, in the département of Puy-de-Dôme, France. where was filmed Fond l' etang.

2.- Les Petits Chanteurs de Saint-Marc (in English The Little Singers of Saint Marc) is a children's choir, founded in September 1986 by Nicolas Carries. It is a mixed unit composed of seventy-five to eighty school-aged children from ten to fifteen years old. All are provided education from the Saint-Marc college in Lyon. this chorus was the one who played the role in the movie

3.-Estimated budget: 5,500,000 euros 

4.-Distributors Miramax Films

5.- Directed by Christophe Barratier

6.- Run time:  1h 36 mins.

7.-  Languages: French  

8.- Les Petits Chanteurs de Saint-Marc sang 21 songs in a concert.

9.- The movie was nominated for 2 Oscars

10.- It won Cesar award in 2009 for best music and sound.

b) profiles:

1° Clement Mathieu : Gérard Jugnot is an actor, screenwriter, director and French producer.

On July 14, 2004, Gérard Jugnot receives the medal of Chevalier of the Legion of Honor by President of the Republic, Jacques Chirac . In 2005 is considered the highest paid star of French cinema, with a fortune of 5.45 billion euros. While the magazine Le Figaro Entreprises indicates that this amount is gross and does not include profits from its activities or its pre-2004 films. In 2006 Gérard Jugnot returns to the screen as "Bernard Morin in Les Bronzés: amis pour la vie, by Patrice Leconte.

2° Rachin : François Berléand (born April 22, 1952) is a French actor. He plays Gilles Triquet, the officer manager and equivalent of David Brent in Le Bureau, the French version of The Office, produced by Canal+. He released a book about his childhood in 2006, Le fils de l'homme invisible (The son of the invisible man). He also appeared in the 2002 movie The Transporter as the French inspector named Tarconi, an active and honest police officer who is an acquaintance of Frank Martin (Jason Statham). He reprised the role in the sequels Transporter 2 and Transporter 3.

3° child Pierre Morhange : Jean-Baptiste Maunier gained fame for his starring role in the 2004 French film Les Choristes, in which he plays Pierre Morhange, a delinquent with an exceptional singing voice at the correctional school Fond de L'Étang. Christophe Barratier, the director of Les Choristes, chose Maunier because "he had the right look" and a marvellous voice. He was also exceptionally appealing for the role.

Maunier appears in Le Grand Meaulnes, a film directed by Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe, based on a novel of the same name by Alain-Fournier. Maunier plays Francois Seurel in this film, which was first released in October 2006.

4° child Pepinot : Maxence Perrin (born April 1, 1995) is a French actor, best known for his parts in Les Choristes (English title The Chorus), Petit homme and For intérieur.

He is the son of actor and film producer Jacques Perrin.

2° what are your expectations of the movie?

This movie was exceptional, it is a movie where you can feel the happiness and the feeling of loneliness when you see those abandon kids, but it turns into a good plot when this miserable children started to chant and to demonstrate that not even one of the is a lost cause.