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Mr Bachmann and His Class

Herr Bachmann und seine Klasse

2021

Maria Speth

Documentary, Self: Dieter Bachmann, Aynur Bal, Önder Cavdar

7.6

115

Documentary The focus of the planned film is on the sixth grade students from the Georg Büchner School. In particular, the students in class 6 B. Children between the ages of 12 and 14. Thoughts. The emotions. Enthusiasm and melancholy. Metamorphosis. The parents' values are fixed in their minds. Or are wiped away uncompromisingly. The own begins to develop. The course for the further way to school is set. Stadtallendorf is an industrial city ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Jonathan Romney Screendaily	"[It] lasts three and a half hours, but not a moment is wasted. Anyone who teaches, or has ever been taught, will find something to relish in this serious-minded but quietly celebratory film"
		Christian Blauvelt IndieWire	One of the year’s most hopeful movies (...) A profound statement about multiculturalism."
		Jessica Kiang Variety	"A lengthy but absorbing tribute (...) [An] affectionate and inspiring portrait of an affectionate and inspiring man"
		Sheri Linden The Hollywood Reporter	"One of the most effortlessly absorbing and deeply encouraging nonfiction films of recent memory (...) [It] unfolds at an unhurried and richly rewarding pace"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A stunning lesson in film-making (...) Riveting and quietly passionate (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		A. O. Scott The New York Times	"Even at more than three and a half hours, the fly-on-the-wall documentary Speth has culled from her time in the classroom is the opposite of tedious"
		Diego Semerene Slant	"The documentary exists within the very restricted pantheon of films that successfully reap the cinematic potential of pedagogy (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"
		Rory O'Connor The Film Stage	"A patiently observed, deeply heartfelt documentary"
		Ola Salwa Cineuropa	"This amazingly warm and clever documentary by Maria Speth about a sixth-grade schoolteacher deserves all the plaudits it can get"

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