the Circle of the missing poets , in Quebec ( Dead Poets Society ), is an American film of Peter Weir, left in 1989.

Synopsis

Fall 1959, in the American State of the Illinois: In Welton, one of the most closed schools and most prestigious of America, a group of students - promised with a glorious future - fact the meeting of an atypical professor of letters: John Keating. This last teaches them the love from the life via poetry and invites them to benefit from the day present ( carp diem in Latin): “ the trade, the right, are noble practices… but poetry, the adventure, the love, it is in fact for that one saw! ”. Intrigued by their new professor and his not very orthodoxe methods of teaching, some young people discover that this last took part, when he was pupil with Welton, in meetings of a baptized secret society “the circle of the missing poets”. The circle was a group of students the purpose of which was “to suck all the substantial marrow of the life”, quotation extracted from a book of Henry David Thoreau: Walden; or, life in wood .
Fascinated by this new approach of the life, the students clandestinely reopen this “Circle of the missing poets” and meet in their turn “to suck the marrow of the life”.

One of the followers of Keating goes, in spite of the formal prohibition of his/her parents, to engage in a more visible way by playing a part in a play assembled by a troop of amateurs. It there gains a great success but causes the fury of his father and commits suicide.

Keating will be returned without care of the college but, with its departure, the majority of the class, which seemed subdued at the time of the survey carried out by the direction, manifest in an ultimate gesture of revolt which the lesson of Keating will not be forgotten of all.

Data sheet

• Title: the Circle of the missing poets (France), the Company of the missing poets (Quebec)
• original Title: Dead Poets Society
• Realization: Peter Weir
• Scenario: Tom Schulman
• Production: Steven Haft, Paul Junger Witt, and Tony Thomas for Silver Screen Partners IV (the U.S.A.), Touchstone Pictures (the U.S.A.); associated producer: Duncan Henderson
• Music: Maurice Guard hair
• Photography: John Seale
• Assembly: William Mr. Anderson
• Decorations: Wendy Stites
• Kind: Drama
• Lasted: 128 minutes
• Comings out date:
• the United States: June 2nd 1989
• France: January 17th 1990

Distribution

• Robin Williams: John Keating
• Ethan Hawke: Todd Anderson
• Robert Sean Leonard: Neil Perry Robert
• Josh Charles: Knox Overstreet
• Scale Hansen: Charlie Dalton
• Dylan Kussman : Richard Cameron
• Allelon Ruggiero: Steven Meeks
• James Waterston: Gerald Pitts
• Lara Flynn Boyle: Ginny Danburry
• Norman Lloyd : Mr. Nolan

Around film

• the film gave place to the publication of a book of the same name, of Nancy H. Kleinbaum in 1990.

Rewards

Price

• Oscars - 1989 : Oscar of the best original screenplay for Tom Schulman
• British Academy Awards - 1989 : better film, better original music for Maurice Guard hair
• Césars of the cinema - 1990 : better foreign film

Nominations

• Oscars - 1989

• Best Picture
• Best Actor: Robin Williams
• Best Director: Peter Weir

• Golden Globe - 1989

• Best Actor (Drama): Robin Williams
• Best Director: Peter Weir
• Best Film (Drama)
• Best Screenplay: Tom Schulman