Topaze (1951)
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Cast
Fernandel, Hélène Perdrière, Jacqueline Pagnol, Marcel Vallée, Jacques Castelot, Milly Mathis
After a principled but naive teacher is fired for refusing to inflate a wealthy pupil’s grades, a crooked politician hires him.
The story
Topaze is a sincere, serious but naive moral philosophy teacher at Muche’s boarding school, where he is secretly in love with Ernestine, the director’s daughter. When he refuses to raise the grades of a wealthy family’s dunce of a son, Muche fires him and accuses him of improper conduct with his daughter. Topaze is then hired by Régis de Castel-Bénac, a crooked politician who profits from rigging public contracts and blackmailing shopkeepers.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Topaze, a moral philosophy teacher at Muche’s boarding school, is as sincere and serious as he is naive. He is secretly in love with Ernestine, the director’s daughter. But when Topaze refuses to raise the grades of the son of a wealthy family, who is a dunce, Mr. Muche fires him, accusing him of having behaved improperly with Mr. Muche’s daughter. Topaze is then hired by Régis de Castel-Bénac, a crooked politician who makes money by rigging public contracts and blackmailing shopkeepers. Reluctantly drawn into shady dealings, Topaze gradually realizes that life in business is very different from his life as a poor teacher who gave the children lessons in morality.
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