As an awkward idealistic high school teacher begins her first job in the city, things turn out to be much tougher than she had imagined.
Acting
Eva Löbau's physically committed, devastatingly specific performance.
Direction
Ade's unflinching static frames that refuse to let you look away.
Writing
Every small humiliation lands with surgical precision.
Director
Maren Ade
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ade shot chronologically and kept Löbau isolated from cast members between takes to manufacture authentic alienation.
This launched the 'Berlin School' movement's focus on emotional austerity; Ade would later direct Toni Erdmann, but this is her purest distillation of social cruelty.
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