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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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ANTI Reviews
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| | At first sight The Edukators really is a message driven movie, so much so that sometimes you may ask yourself if it is a movie at all or rather an illustrated talking heads treatise on the ailments of late capitalism. These people, Peter, Jule, Jan, they suffer. It is not too obvious what they suffer from but this may be exactly what it is then: They suffer from not being able to say precisely what they so diffusely suffer from. The current state of society, capitalism, a rich asshole that keeps Jule in debt, a bossy boss in a restaurant who humiliates her. And a yearning for love, a yearning for finding a way of expressing what they do not really know they actually want to express, apart from the suffering... What this film however really is about is an escape from politics into the private sphere. Not only does it very early on start to focus on a hackneyed triangular love story, it then even feeds the political impetus into this triangle and, even worse, is happy to discuss politics on this level... The Edukators in the end sends a message from Neil Postman. So much for its politics. | | | (Ekkehard Knorer, World Socialist Website) | | I couldn’t help feeling that if the Austrian director Michael Haneke had been in charge, he would have done something a lot more extreme with the ending. | | | | (Peter Bradshaw, Guardian) | | All I can say is that the issues will be hotly debated as the film finally asserts that ‘some people never change.’ Too true. Capitalists are hardly likely to change their colours and anarchic adventurists will continue to breed disillusion as long they remain arrogant in their sectarianism. Since half the film is taken up with discussing the crimes of capitalism and the need for socialism, the Edukators need educating in Marxist methodology and building mass movements. | | | | (Jeff Sawtell, Morning Star) | | |
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