La Maternelle (1933)
La Maternelle (International title: Children of Montmartre) is a 1933 French film directed and written by Jean Benoit-Lévy and Marie Epstein. It was adapted from Léon Frapié's Prix Goncourt winning novel La Maternelle (1904). In 1935, it was ranked as the 6th best foreign film by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, and has received a 8.4 ranking (out of 10) by 27 reviewers at the Internet Movie Database. It has also been noted as one of the earliest French films to use speech.
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