A hot teacher walks into a repressive 1960s French boarding school. Chaos (and hormones) ensue.
Season 1 • Episode 2
LatestThe life of a small group of teenagers in a small 1961 French boarding school. In French Savoie, Pierre Hautefort, a literature teacher, is head of the Beauregard school, located in the mountains. However, the arrival of the young science teacher, Julien Ferrer, is going to seriously challenge the school’s strict and organized life.
Cinematography
Savoie mountains as suffocating cage, not escape.
Acting
Bertrand Milliot's crumbling patriarch is quietly devastating.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Set during the Algerian War's final years, the boarding school becomes a microcosm of France's fractured identity — discipline masking violence.
Director Lorenzi adapted from his own novel; the real Beauregard school still stands in Savoie, now converted to apartments.
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