A Cage of Nightingales
- IMDb link: 0039234
- IMDb rating: 6.5 (280 votes)
- Genres: Drama, Music
- Director: Noel-Noel, Jean Dreville
- Cast: Micheline Francey, René Blancard, René Génin and others
- Release date: 6 Sep 1945
- Release year: 1945
- Runtime: 89 minutes
- Country: France
- Keywords: boys' boarding school, love, young, school discipline, school director, paris france, boys choir, wedding ceremony, mother daughter relationship, love at first sight
Plot:
"La Cage aux rossignols" (A Cage of Nightingales) is the title of an autobiographical book that a young writer try to publish, which would allow him to marry so charming Martine. Under a pseudonym, Clement's book is published in La Depeche a daily newspaper that publishes novels as serials. Martine can read the novel to her mother (voice-over). Story of this music lover, supervisor of a boarding reserved for young offenders who asks only to discover the joys of music by forming a choir. But Clement does not have only friends. The director of the institution, man petty and narrow-minded, never misses an opportunity to throw a spanner in the works...