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Title: The Teachers' Lounge
Original Title: Das Lehrerzimmer
Year: 2023
Info
- Country: Germany
- Language: German Turkish
- Length: 98 Minutes (1 hour 38 min)
- Genre: Drama
- Studios: if... Productions Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) Arte
- Distributor: A Contracorriente Films
Release Dates
- UK: March 22 2024
- United States: December 25 2023
Plot
When one of her students is suspected of theft, math and sports teacher starting her first job at a high school, Carla Nowak, decides to get to the bottom of the matter. Caught between her ideals and the school system, the consequences of her actions threaten to break her. The young woman tries to mediate between outraged parents, stubborn colleagues and aggressive students.
'The Teachers' Lounge' (German: 'Das Lehrerzimmer') is a 2023 German drama film directed by lker Çatak, who co-wrote the script with Johannes Duncker. In 2017, Çatak released his first feature film, 'Once Upon a Time... Indianerland', in German cinemas, followed in 2019 by 'I Was, I Am, I Will Be', which earned him nominations at the Film Awards. Alemán 2020 in the categories of best director and best script.
It was selected as the German candidate for best international film at the 2024 Oscars.
Among its cast we find Léonie Benesch as Carla Nowak, Michael Klammer as Thomas Liebenwerda, Rafael Stachowiak as Milosz Dudek, Anne-Kathrin Gummich as Dr. Bettina Böhm and Eva Löbau as Friederike Kuhn. The protagonist of the film is a German actress who has participated in 'Babylon Berlin' and 'The Crown', in which she played the role of the older sister of Prince Philip of Edinburgh, Cecilia of Greece and Denmark. In 2019 she also appears as the writer Elisabeth Hauptmann, in her youth, in the two-part docudrama biographical film Brecht by Heinrich Breloer.
Awards
- 2024 Academy Awards (Oscars): 1 0
- 2024 Goya Awards: 1 0
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Videos
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'The Teacher's lounge' VOSI trailer
January 15 2024
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Trivia
Experience as a teacher
Eva Löbau, the "opponent" of the teacher in this movie, played a teacher herself in the also great movie Der Wald vor lauter Bäumen (2003), which covers a similar topic.
German Oscar candidate
Official submission of Germany for the 'Best International Feature Film' category of the 96th Academy Awards in 2024.
Debut
Film debut of Leonard Stettnisch.
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