A German boarding school so repressed it makes Dead Poets Society look like a party.
Follows the lives of students and their teachers based on the director's childhood memories. The events of the film take places in the actual boarding school called "Gymnasium Canisianum", founded in 1946 by a German catholic priest.
Direction
Breloer weaponizes his own memories with surgical precision.
Acting
Ernst Jacobi embodies institutional rot in every gesture.
Production
Shot in the actual boarding school—reality haunts every frame.
Director
Heinrich Breloer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Gymnasium Canisianum was founded by a German priest in 1946, making it a post-war Catholic project to rebuild moral order—this film exposes what that actually meant.
Breloer cast Dietmar Bär and Ben Becker before they became famous, capturing their raw youth as mirrors of his own institutionalized adolescence.
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