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The Teacher (2016 film)
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Wikipedia article
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| name = The Teacher
| image = The Teacher 2016 poster.jpg
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| director = Jan Hebejk
| producer =
| writer = Petr Jarchovsk
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| runtime = 102 minutes
| country = Slovakia
Czech Republic
| language = Slovak
| budget = 20 Million CZK
| gross = $1.9 million
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'The Teacher' is a 2016 black comedy film directed by Jan Hebejk which premiered at the 2016 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, where Zuzana Maurry received an award for best actress.
Plot
The film is set in 1983, Czechoslovakia. Mria Drazdechov becomes a teacher at a suburban school near Bratislava. She uses her position to blackmail parents of her students to get benefits from them. Students whose parents disobey are bullied and given bad grades. The head teacher is afraid to intervene as Drazdechov is chairperson of the school Communist Party branch. One of Drazdechov's students attempts suicide as a result of the bullying. This induces the school principal to call the parents for a meeting about a petition to remove Drazdechov from the school. There are parents whose children were bullied by Drazdechov and others who support her. Most of the parents are afraid of the teacher's connections and do not want to sign. The meeting ends in failure as only three families sign. It seems that Drazdechov has won, but some families later change their minds and return to sign the petition. This results in Drazdechov being removed from the school.
The film shifts to 1991, two years after the Velvet Revolution. Drazdechov becomes a teacher once again. The movie concludes with the same scene from the beginning Drazdechov asks all her students about their parents' jobs. The only difference is that on the classroom wall hangs a portrait of Vclav Havel instead of Gustv Husk.
Cast
*Zuzana Maurry as Mria Drazdechov
*Zuzana Konen as Kuerov
*Csongor Kassai as Kuera
*Tamara Fischer as Danka Kuerov
*Martin Havelka as Binder
*va Bandor as Hana Binderov
*Oliver Oswald as Filip Binder
*Peter Bebjak as Vclav Littmann
*Richard Labuda as Karol Littmann
Release
Box office
'The Teacher' grossed $64,437 in the United States and Canada and $1.9 million in other countries for a worldwide total of $1.9 million.Critical response
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 91% based on 32 reviews, with an average rating of 7.25/10. Metacritic reports a score of 77 out of 100, based on 8 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".References
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