A teacher's worst nightmare wears a school uniform and writes her love letters.
Andrea is a teacher at a gymnasium in Lübeck. She prefers to convince her students with arguments rather than punishments. But it can also be very specific: For example, when it comes to averting the advances of her problem student Niklas. He has fallen in love with her, much to the grief of his girlfriend and classmate Lisa. On a school trip, the situation comes to a head, Andrea feels increasingly pressurized by Niklas. Her husband Michael is not much help in this situation - the dentist has just started a new job and only his research in mind. Jealous Lisa tells in school that they do have a relationship, which makes their marriage very much tested.
Acting
Ursula Karven's restrained panic as walls close in.
Direction
Tiefenbacher's claustrophobic framing of respectable spaces.
Director
Matthias Tiefenbacher
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
German TV movies of this era often explored 'Bildungsroman gone wrong' in gymnasium settings, reflecting national anxieties about authority and youth.
Sergej Moya was 22 playing 17; the age gap tension between him and Karven (then 51) was deliberately unacknowledged in marketing.
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