A Cage of Nightingales
A Cage of Nightingales French La Cage aux rossignols is a 1945 French film directed by Jean Drville. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story, and served as an inspiration for the film The Chorus 2004.
In France, in the 1930s, a supervisor at a rehabilitation house awakens difficult teens inner musical tendencies by forming a choir, despite the directors skepticism. Later, this experience is reported in a novel in a major newspaper.The history of the Cage of Nightingales is directly inspired by that of an actual educational centre, called Ker Goat, where Jacques Dietz, Roger Riffier and their teams worked to help children in difficulty through choral singing and innovative teaching methods. ........
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