The School Teacher

Gérard Barbier (Coluche) is out of work after stepping in to save a child accused of shoplifting. He takes a job as a school teacher, with no sign he is suited to it. Claude Berri puts him in a staff room with Jacqueline Lajoie (Josiane Balasko), a depressed colleague, and Monsieur Meignant (Roland Giraud), who follows the union line, and Gérard goes on trying to be decent to the children in front of him.