The Teacher

Name: The Teacher
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: August 30, 2017
Duration: 102 min
Rating: 77
Cast: Csongor Kassai, Éva Bandor, Ina Gogálová, Martin Havelka, Oliver Oswald

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Film Movement | Release Date: August 30, 2017 | Not Rated

Starring: Csongor Kassai, Éva Bandor, Ina Gogálová, Martin Havelka, Oliver Oswald, Peter Bebjak, Richard Labuda, Tamara Fischer, Zuzana Konecná, Zuzana Mauréry

Summary: In a middle school classroom in Bratislava in 1983, a new teacher, Maria Drazdechova (Zuzana Mauréry), asks each student to stand up, introduce themselves and tell her what their parents do for a living. It slowly becomes clear that perhaps the pupils' grades are related to how willing their guardians are open to helping her out with herIn a middle school classroom in Bratislava in 1983, a new teacher, Maria Drazdechova (Zuzana Mauréry), asks each student to stand up, introduce themselves and tell her what their parents do for a living. It slowly becomes clear that perhaps the pupils' grades are related to how willing their guardians are open to helping her out with her errands, her housecleaning, and other random services. After one of the students attempts suicide, however, the director of the school has no choice but to call for an emergency parents' meeting to remove the teacher, but because Ms. Drazdechova is also a high-ranking official of the Communist Party, parents are hesitant to sign a petition to transfer her out. [Film Movement]… Expand

Director: Jan Hrebejk

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 102 min

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Kenneth Turan

Aug 31, 2017

Like the remarkable films Eastern European countries turned out regularly during the Soviet era, it marries a character-driven story with social concerns, in this case a deft parable about the kind of corrupt privileged society nominally egalitarian Socialism created. Read full review

Alissa Simon

Aug 25, 2017

Although dealing with weighty matters, Jarchovsky’s script (which is based on a real-life incident he experienced during primary school) is leavened with welcome humor and irony.... As usual, Hrebejk’s direction is smooth and the ensemble performances top-notch. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

Aug 25, 2017

Jan Hřebejk’s The Teacher is a sardonic, richly seriocomic morality play that uses a delicate touch to explore why communism never seems to work out in the long run. Read full review

Boyd van Hoeij

Aug 25, 2017

Though somewhat slow out of the starting blocks, this finally caustic drama, set in early 1980s Bratislava (then in Czechoslovakia), accumulates power and insight as it builds over the course of a tense parents-teachers conference, punctuated with the necessary flashbacks. Read full review

Aaron Hillis

Aug 31, 2017

The setup may be as unsubtle as a metaphoric morality lesson about Europe’s not-too-distant past, or perhaps it’s politically timeless; it’s not a far leap to also think about a certain someone’s insane need for backscratching loyalty within the White House. Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Aug 29, 2017

Ms. Maurery has great fun with the character, a tricky part because Maria nearly always maintains a kindhearted veneer, even at her most venal. Read full review

Diego Semerene

Aug 31, 2017

There's a Tarkovskian layer of social despair in the web of corruption joining the child and the adult, the bedroom and the nation. Read full review

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netflic

Sep 18, 2017

This drama time-set occurs in Czecho-Slovakian Socialist Republic in 1980es.
A manipulative school teacher who is also a local Communist Party secretary abuses her position and status to extort all kinds of favors: food, different services, etc. from her pupils and their parents. AuthorsThis drama time-set occurs in Czecho-Slovakian Socialist Republic in 1980es.
A manipulative school teacher who is also a local Communist Party secretary abuses her position and status to extort all kinds of favors: food, different services, etc. from her pupils and their parents. Authors masterfully show the atmosphere of silence, fear and helplessness in the face of anybody who represents the power of the State. Even though it was happening in Czecho-Slovakia, it was typical for any socialist regime.

The movie looks quite authentic and realistic. Good performances, directing and music score.

One has to come through a similar personal experience to fully understand the magnitude of soul corruption that a regime like that causes its subjects. It's effects live much longer than the regime itself.… Expand

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Mauro_Lanari

Jun 27, 2019

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Wow: the return of the dark lady, the most politically incorrect thing at the times of the #metoo. The answer beyond the Iron Curtain to "Disclosure" by Crichton & Levinson. Perhaps such a clear denunciation of the abuse of power by women (with the connivance of the notorious(Mauro Lanari)
Wow: the return of the dark lady, the most politically incorrect thing at the times of the #metoo. The answer beyond the Iron Curtain to "Disclosure" by Crichton & Levinson. Perhaps such a clear denunciation of the abuse of power by women (with the connivance of the notorious wealthy parents) was missing from the cinema since that 1994.… Expand

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