Relations between the students and the new teacher of German are extremely tense. When one female student commits suicide, her schoolmates blame the teacher for her death. An awareness that things are not quite so black and white comes too late.
Acting
Igor Samobor's controlled menace keeps you guessing his innocence.
Direction
Biček lets silence do the screaming.
Writing
The script refuses easy villains — everyone's complicit, no one escapes.
Director
Rok Biček
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in a real Slovenian technical school with actual students as actors, blending documentary tension with fiction.
The German class setting isn't random — Slovenia's fraught historical relationship with German authority echoes through every power dynamic.
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