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Edukators/ Die Fetten Jahre Sind Vorbei (15)
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| Starring |
Daniel Bruhl  , Julia Jentsch, Stipe Erceg
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Directed by:
Hans Weingartner
Written by:
Katharina Held, Hans Weingartner
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2004 |
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DRAMA
FOREIGN
ROMANCE
THRILLER
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Germany/ Austria |
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C |
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127 |
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Enterprising anti-capitalist thriller. |
Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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| The Edukators is an engaging thriller starring one of Europe’s most promising actors, Daniel Bruhl (pictured right), already familiar to British audiences through Good Bye Lenin and Ladies in Lavender. He plays one of three anti-globalisation activists – two male, one female - who break into the houses of rich Germans, rearrange their furniture and leave messages with warnings such as "You have too much money" and "Your days of plenty are numbered," signed "The Edukators." | | Inevitably, or else we wouldn’t have much of a story, one of their pranks goes wrong. They find themselves kidnapping a wealthy businessman (Burghart Klaussner), who turns out not to be the capitalist ogre they had assumed. | | Writer-director Hans Weingartner’s left-wing sympathies are not in doubt, but he’s fair enough to realise that his three heroes have a naive political agenda and no idea how to achieve it. Perhaps in order to save himself the trouble of thinking the issues through, in the second half of his film he largely forgets the political thriller aspects and gets bogged down in some sub-Jules et Jim shenanigans as the three activists try to work out exactly who loves whom. | | The result is a film that’s at least half an hour too long and loses its way just as it seems about to say something significant about anti-globalisation; but it’s realistically acted, nicely shot and drily humorous, with a heart-warming and believable twist. | |
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