The Teachers' Lounge

When one of her students is suspected of theft, teacher 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.

Cast

Leonie Benesch

as Carla Nowak

Leonard Stettnisch

as Oskar

Eva Löbau

as Friederike Kuhn

Michael Klammer

as Thomas Liebenwerda

Rafael Stachowiak

as Milosz Dudek

Sarah Bauerett

as Vanessa König

Kathrin Wehlisch

as Lore Semnik

Anne-Kathrin Gummich

as Dr. Bettina Böhm

Katharina M. Schubert

as Mrs. Haubrichs

Uygar Tamer

as Mrs. Yılmaz

Reviews

Brent Marchant

In recent years, we’ve all seen examples of incidents that start out comparatively small but that quickly get blown all out of proportion – and unreasonably so at that. As developments emerge and explode under these conditions, they often lose all sense of rationality and soon take on lives of their...

BornKnight

German drama film directed by İlker Çatak, and that is nominated for best international movie for the 96th Academy Awards. Leonie Benesch as Carla Nowak, and idealist Polish immigrant teacher have a suspicion of theft at her 1st grade school raised by one of the student towards another (immigrant...

CinemaSerf

There's a spate of petty thefts going on in her junior school, so after a rather dubiously executed class search fails to deliver a culprit, the enthusiastic and maybe a little naive teacher "Miss Novak" (Leonie Benesch) sets a video trap to see if she can identify the culprit. She does, potentially...

Norsk

A warning: This movie is all about the journey. There is no payoff in the end so don't stick around hoping for a nice tidy conclusion. Instead, you will feel the same frustration as the teacher does which I think is exactly what the director was going for in this movie. Having that out of the way...

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