Topaze

Albert Topaze, sincere schoolteacher addicted to « rote » morality, works at a private school run by supremely money-grubbing M. Muche, whose daughter, also a teacher, makes cynical use of the knowledge that Topaze loves her. Alas, Topaze’s naive honesty brings him unjust dismissal…and makes him fair game for the « aunt » of his private pupil, really the mistress of crooked politician Regis, who needs an honest-seeming « front man. » Can artful Suzy Courtois keep Topaze on the string? With steadily escalating disillusion comes moral crisis…