Summary
In a small village near Paris, 14-year-old boys and girls enter the training center for future lads and jockeys. For these young pupils, the transition between the family environment and this new world is brutal.
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Critics vs audiences
Audiences like it more than critics (+11)
Critics 58Audiences 69GoodWatch 46
Metascore58
IMDb6.9
Running time
1 h 41 min
A typical length for documentaries, +5 min on the typical 96
typical 96101Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 1 country
Released
2011
December 2, 2011
15 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
English
Original language
Also spoken
FrenchDirecting · 1
- Benjamin Marquet Director, Director of Photography
Production · 5
- Daniel Treichler Producer
- Jay Kim Producer
- Jean-Louis Burgat Producer
- Monika Weibel Producer
- Daniel Marquet Producer
Camera · 2
- Laurent Chalet Director of Photography
- Sébastien Buchmann Director of Photography
Sound · 2
- Damien Dassaradanayadou Music
- Ezéchiel Pailhès Music
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