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Jürgen Vogel | ... | ||
Frederick Lau | ... | ||
Max Riemelt | ... |
Marco
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Jennifer Ulrich | ... | ||
Christiane Paul | ... |
Anke Wenger
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Jacob Matschenz | ... | |
Cristina do Rego | ... |
Lisa
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Elyas M'Barek | ... | ||
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Maximilian Vollmar | ... | |
Max Mauff | ... |
Kevin
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Ferdinand Schmidt-Modrow | ... |
Ferdi
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Tim Oliver Schultz | ... | |
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Amelie Kiefer | ... | |
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Fabian Preger | ... |
Kaschi
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Odine Johne | ... |
Maja
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High school teacher, Rainer Wegner, may be popular with the students, but he's also unorthodox. He's forced to teach autocracy for the school's project week. He's less than enthusiastic at first, but the response of the students is surprising to say the least. He forces the students to become more invested in the prospect of self rule, and soon the class project has its own power and eerily starts to resemble Germany's past. Can Wegner and his class realize what's happening before the horrors start repeating themselves? Written by napierslogs
This is a German film (subtitled) about a school project looking at autocracy (a la Nazi Germany). In order for the teacher to persuade his pupils that autocracy remains a real threat to democracy, he persuades them to take part in a class dictatorship. The key difference between this and your average school classroom is that he convinces the pupils not just to obey but also to want his every command. Of course the project turns bad and things get scary.
What I liked about the film was that it did not treat the pupils as "just kids"; they had brains, opinions, and their own ethics too. It is not a very black and white in it's opinion, you could draw some distinct opinion from the film but I suggest that there are several different opinions that are equally as valid. It keeps you guessing what is going to happen & even deliberately misleads you.