Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home.
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Hans Weingartner
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Title: The Edukators (2004)
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Cast
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| Daniel Brühl | ... | Jan | |
| Julia Jentsch | ... | Jule | |
| Stipe Erceg | ... | Peter | |
| Burghart Klaußner | ... | Hardenberg (as Burghart Klaussner) | |
| Peer Martiny | ... | Villenbesitzer Jürgen | |
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Petra Zieser | ... | Villenbesitzerin |
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Laura Schmidt | ... | Tochter Laura |
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Sebastian Butz | ... | Sohn |
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Oliver Bröcker | ... | Aggressiver Globalisierungsgegner |
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Knut Berger | ... | Globalisierungsgegner |
| Hanns Zischler | ... | Vermieter | |
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Claudio Caiolo | ... | Paolo |
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Bernhard Bettermann | ... | Jules Chef |
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Sylvia Haider | ... | Neureiche Frau 1 |
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Claudia Jakobshagen | ... | Neureiche Frau 2 |
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Berlin student Jule is hoplessly indebted due to an accident she caused, uninsuredly hitting a rich businessman's limousine. Evicted from her flat she moves in with her boyfrend Peter and soon learns that Peter and his flatmate, Jan, are breaking into luxurious mansions at night. Instead of stealing or vandalizing, though, they carefully and ornately rearrange furniture and valulables and leave obscure messages. Jule convinces Jan, who has a crush on her, to pay a visit to the villa of her creditor. Written by Armin Ortmann {armin@sfb288.math.tu-berlin.de}
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Your Days Of Plenty Are Numbered See more »Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
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Release Date:
25 November 2004 (Germany) See more »Also Known As:
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Box Office
Opening Weekend:
$393,664 (Germany), 10 December 2004Opening Weekend USA:
$10,075, 24 July 2005, Limited ReleaseGross USA:
$175,493, 16 October 2005Company Credits
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Peter: It's not who invented the gun, man. It's who pulls the trigger.
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The tagline in the English-language releases of the film, "Your days of plenty are numbered", is a direct translation of the film's original German title. See more »Goofs
When Jan and Peter are driving with their van. You can see in the back window of the van a camera man with his camera. See more »Quotes
Hardenberg: I admit that some of what you say is true, but I'm the wrong person to be blamed for. Yes, I've been playing the game but I didn't make up the rules.Peter: It's not who invented the gun, man. It's who pulls the trigger.
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Don't let anyone tell you horror stories about the camera work, they probably never had an ounce of imagination anywhere in their bodies!
For those of us who are bored blind with standard Hollywood-ian movies, this kind of camera work is very refreshing. The constant motion puts us right into the characters' world and helps foster an instant connection with them. Not that one wouldn't connect with them without the fancy directing! On the contrary, Jan, Jule, and Peter will reawaken the idealist in anyone.
The movie is essentially about three friends with seemingly no particular direction in life other than petty political activism now and then. But Peter and Jan have found a very clever way of subverting the socio-economic system they so despise. Calling themselves "the Edukators", they break into the homes of the fabulously wealthy only to make some absurd adjustments to the arrangement of their furniture and leave a simple note behind: "You have too much money."
With this basic plot, The Edukators delves into that ill-defined human notion of morality, eventually blurring the line between the ethics of social politics and the ethics of personal relationships.
Don't let the plot scare you, you don't have to be an anarchist to enjoy this movie! It's well-written, beautifully shot, and flawlessly performed. Some of the drawbacks are that it gets a little long and preachy at the end (which happens fairly often to new directors), but let's not nitpick. I'm willing to gloss over the film's (rare) faults because, in the end, there is far too much to take home from this movie. It's a real shame that some would wish to dismiss it as some crackpot anarchist film.