Cert 12A
October 10th 2024
Winner – Berlin International Film Festival 2023
Label Europa Cinemas and CICAE Award (Ilker Çatak)
Oscar for Best International Feature Film
Nominee – Academy Awards, USA
Director: Ilker Çatak
Cast: Leonie Benesch, Anne-Kathrin Gummich, Rafael Stachowiak
Country: Germany. German, Polish, Turkish, English (English subtitles) 98 minutes
UK release date: April 2024
When one of her students is suspected of theft, teacher Carla Nowak (Leonie Benesch) decides to get to the bottom of the matter, making a secret recording to trap the culprit. Caught between her ideals and the school system, the consequences of her actions threaten to break her.
“Ilker Çatak’s new film is a nerve-jangling painful and intense movie about an outbreak of stealing in a German secondary school. The uncompromising qualities initially coexist with something subtly insidious and unresolved, an unnerving demonstration of poisoned-herd mentality, all underscored by a disquieting musical score.” Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
“Leonie Benesch is terrific here as Carla Nowak, an idealistic young teacher frightened of her own courage and overwhelmed by the snowballing events that a moment of exasperation has set in motion.” Catherine Wheatley, Sight and Sound Magazine
Film Club at the Roxy 