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The Teacher
Directed by
Jan Hřebejk
Not Rated
2017
1h 42m
Comedy
,
Drama
7.2
91%
82%
6.9
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The principal of an elementary school calls a special parents meeting after it’s alleged that the seemingly empathetic and kindly-looking teacher Mrs. Drazděchová uses her students to manipulate their parents.
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Cast of The Teacher
Zuzana Mauréry
Mária Drazdechová
Csongor Kassai
Marek Kučera
Zuzana Konečná
Iveta Kučerová
Tamara Fischer
Danka Kučerová
Martin Havelka
Jaroslav Binder
Ina Gogálová
Monika Čertezni
Ondřej Malý
Peter Bebjak
Václav Littmann
Attila Mokos
Oliver Oswald
Filip Binder
Éva Bandor
Hana Binderová
Richard Labuda
Karol Littmann
Peter Barták
Jozef Domonkoš
Judita Hansman
Bártová
Laco Hrušovský
Malinovský
Dušan Kaprálik
Ľubomír Kratochvíl
Ela Lehotská
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The Teacher Ratings & Reviews
Detroit News
Adam Graham
[An] absorbing Slovak-Czech drama ...
Christianity Today
Kenneth R. Morefield
The film understands that broken systems persist precisely because their brokenness benefits somebody.
Buffalo News
Christopher Schobert
Maurry makes the film worth watching.
The Public (Buffalo)
M. Faust
The Teacher mostly obviously works as a parable about the failures of a social system that can be played for private benefit.
PopMatters
Tristan Kneschke
Zuzana Maurry as the teacher gives an understated performance, playing the role with a cheerfully saccharine detachment, which is sometimes truly terrifying
San Francisco Examiner
Anita Katz
A monstrous machinator who, herself, is a victim of a crooked system, Maria Drazdechova is nuanced as well as shameless, and rather fascinating.
SF Weekly
Sherilyn Connelly
The Teacher is a sly goof on the inspirational-teacher genre.
Epoch Times
Joe Bendel
It is a razor-sharp film that is almost unbearably gripping.
National Review
Armond White
The Teacher dramatizes fascist fascination and the banal resistance.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
"The Teacher" benefits not only from filmmakers who join a multifaceted understanding of human nature with a fastidious control of technique and style, but also from being set in a particular time and place.
Slant Magazine
Diego Semerene
There's a Tarkovskian layer of social despair in the web of corruption joining the child and the adult, the bedroom and the nation.
Village Voice
Aaron Hillis
A little power corrupts absolutely in this caustically clever Slovak-language dramedy from the prolific Czech director-writer team of Jan Hrebejk and Petr Jarchovsky
New York Times
Ben Kenigsberg
"The Teacher" is polished, engaging and somewhat risk-averse.
Film Inquiry
Alex Lines
A predictably eye-rolling ending doesn't give much relief to this frustrating drama.
Chicago Reader
Leah Pickett
Though flecked with dark humor, the film is a chilling reminder of what people can get away with, and what can become normal, if one consents to an oppressive system.
Variety
Alissa Simon
Although dealing with weighty matters, Jarchovsky's script (which is based on a real-life incident he experienced during primary school) is leavened with welcome humor and irony.
The Hollywood Reporter
Boyd van Hoeij
Though somewhat slow out of the starting blocks, this finally caustic drama, set in early 1980s Bratislava (then in Czechoslovakia), accumulates power and insight as it builds over the course of a tense parents-teachers conference.
IndieWire
David Ehrlich
If The Teacher fails to convey the particulars of its climactic uprising, Hřebejk's lesson plan -- a needle-sharp take on the perils of doing the wrong thing for the right reasons -- still touches a nerve.
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