Zero For Conduct

One of the greatest films about children ever made and a haunting celebration of anarchic rebellion. The first fictional work from writer/director/scenarist/editor Jean Vigo, ZERO FOR CONDUCT was closely based on his own miserable experiences as a boarding-school pupil and influenced other screen classics of disaffected youth including Truffaut's THE 400 BLOWS and Lindsay Anderson's IF....

The plot follows the misadventures of a group of young students as they endure the absurdities and deprivations forced upon them by their petty, authoritarian teachers. After a confrontation in which one of the students repeats before the entire faculty the phrase with which h...