The movie
The Teachers’ Lounge
Carla, an idealistic young teacher caught up in a moral quagmire when a series of thefts take place at her high-brow middle school, begins to come apart at the seams… ‘A gripping classroom-ethics thriller…’—Variety
Length: 96 min
Country: Duitsland
Language spoken: German, Turkish
Language subtitles: English
Cast: Leonie Benesch, Leonard Stettnisch, Eva Löbau, Michael Klammer, Anne-Kathrin Gummich
Director: Ílker Çatak Ílker Çatak
Release date: 17/10/2023
Description
These screenings are with English subtitles
Leonie Benesch (she played Prince Phillip’s sister in The Crown) is absolutely riveting as Carla, an idealistic young teacher caught up in a moral quagmire when a series of thefts take place at her high-brow middle school. Director Ílker Çatak, who took home the German Film Awards prize for Best Film earlier this year, is careful to paint things in shades of grey—nothing is black and white here. Carla’s supremely confident façade begins to crumble as the realpolitik of the classroom, the indifference of her fellow teachers, and certain malevolent students take their toll…
‘A gripping classroom-ethics thriller… The Teachers’ Lounge is about a lot of things—conformity, rebellion, racism, optics, intergenerational mistrust—but it is also a stark reminder, from both the teacher and the student side, of what school actually was for so many of us: our first and most foundational experience of institutionalization.’—Jessica Kiang, Variety
Leonie Benesch (she played Prince Phillip’s sister in The Crown) is absolutely riveting as Carla, an idealistic young teacher caught up in a moral quagmire when a series of thefts take place at her high-brow middle school. Director Ílker Çatak, who took home the German Film Awards prize for Best Film earlier this year, is careful to paint things in shades of grey—nothing is black and white here. Carla’s supremely confident façade begins to crumble as the realpolitik of the classroom, the indifference of her fellow teachers, and certain malevolent students take their toll…
‘A gripping classroom-ethics thriller… The Teachers’ Lounge is about a lot of things—conformity, rebellion, racism, optics, intergenerational mistrust—but it is also a stark reminder, from both the teacher and the student side, of what school actually was for so many of us: our first and most foundational experience of institutionalization.’—Jessica Kiang, Variety
