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Winner European Film Award 2002 Alternative International Film Title: To Be and to Have. In a small village in the Auvergne, Georges Lopez teaches alone to a class of thirteen children aged four to twelve. He patiently and lovingly teaches these different children of different ages, characters and levels. From the harsh winter to the summer holidays, we follow their learning process, interspersed with lyrical images of the changing landscape in this sparsely populated region. Philibert also filmed the children at home on the farm, when they are working or toiling on their homework, with or without the help of their parents. The end of the film is also the end of the career of the teacher: he retires and says goodbye emotionally.
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