No,it's not a surfer movie, or a stadium crowd pastime flick. It is a most unexpected find in the foreign language department of Netflix.
We have made the switch to streaming on Netflix, and so far I am far from impressed. I had been warned that the inventory is not nearly as broad as the snail-mail method, but, honestly, I was hard pressed to find any film that was "primetime," well-known, and didn't look totally low-budget lame. I'll keep looking.
But in the meantime, we managed to find a gem.
In keeping with my aim to keep my posts brief - this is a German film about a high school teacher whose unwilling assignment to teach a one week course on autocracy goes terribly, terribly wrong. Aside from the language, one would swear it's American. Absolutely captivating in watching the vulnerability of teens as they're unwittingly sucked into the claws of ideology, reminiscent of Hitler's Youth. Chilling.
Excellent film. Watch it and we'll talk more.
Sounds great...to us teachers, of course! Putting it right now on my streaming list. I agree. Very, very hard to find decent streamers... We often go through three or four (about ten min each) before we hit a half-decent one. Makes film viewing a challenge!
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