With greater critical distance on the filmmaker's part, and a disciplined use of the editing scissors, it might have been something substantial.
The Edukators (2005)
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Reviews Counted:72
Fresh:49
Rotten:23
Average Rating:6.4/10
Consensus: The Edukators engagingly plays out the clash between youthful idealism and older pragmaticism.
Rated: R [See Full Rating] for language, a scene of sexuality, and some drug use.
Runtime: 2 hrs 9 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Theatrical Release:Jul 22, 2005 Limited
Synopsis: Jule is a waitress who can't make ends meet. She moves in with her boyfriend Peter and his friend Jan, two young men united by their passion to change the world. But Jule has a secret: an auto... Jule is a waitress who can't make ends meet. She moves in with her boyfriend Peter and his friend Jan, two young men united by their passion to change the world. But Jule has a secret: an auto accident in the past has burdened her with lifetime payments to a successful businessman named Hardenberg. Peter and Jan also have a secret: they are the notorious "Edukators," mysterious perpetrators who break into the expensive homes of local yacht club members as an act of political rebellion. They wreak havoc and leave notes that read, "Your days of plenty are numbered." While Peter is away on holiday, secrets between Jan and Jule are disclosed and feelings between them intensify. They impulsively break into the home of the businessman to whom Jule is indebted. But their growing passion has made them careless and when they're forced to return to the villa the following night to retrieve a forgotten cell phone, Hardenberg surprises them. They have no choice but to call Peter for help, even if it means his finding out about their betrayal. The trio makes a rash decision and their futures (as well as Hardenberg’s) are put in jeopardy. Ideals are tested as generations collide, passions rage, and loyalties shatter. -- © IFC Films [More]
Starring: Daniel Bruhl, Burghart Klaussner, Stipe Erceg, Julia Jentsch
Starring: Daniel Bruhl, Burghart Klaussner, Stipe Erceg, Julia Jentsch, Petra Zieser
Director: Hans Weingartner
Director: Hans Weingartner
Screenwriter: Hans Weingartner
Producer: Antonia Svoboda, Hans Weingartner
Studio: IFC Films
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Reviews for The Edukators
too sweet-natured and, at 126 minutes, too desultory for its own good
The surprise ending is gimmicky, but the character study is consistently enthralling. The Edukators is educational—not intellectually, but emotionally.
A mixed bag of style and ethics fluidly formed into an entertaining and thought-provoking whole.
This supposedly progressive movie unintentionally delivers a sexist message as old as the garden of Eden: Don't let a woman get involved, because she'll mess things up.
it is youth, in all its contrariness, folly and passion, that The Edukators ultimately celebrates.
The dramatic edge this film develops comes from the rather wonderfully conveyed discovery of mutual attraction.
A thought-provoking drama about money, power and the heated-up war against the winning class.
There's an evenhanded humanism flowing through 'The Edukators that may strike doctrinaire viewers on either side of the divide as mushy, but it's tough enough for the rest of us to chew on for a long time.
Weingartner proves too ready to pat his inner rebels on their backs....[but asks] provocative questions about liberal revolt...and the effect of age on ideology.
A sweet, funny and gripping romantic adventure, it's about the limitations of political activism in this day and age, and what happens when your girlfriend and your best friend fall in love.
It makes its statements on right versus wrong, strong versus weak and capitalism versus democracy without preaching and in an often wryly-amusing, satiric way.
It's as if the Symbionese Liberation Army had nabbed one of The Big Chill's weekenders.
There's such an important theme behind this gripping thriller that you can forgive the filmmaker for dragging it out a bit too long.
The attractive cast also deliver very likeable performances, which convey the pleasure their idealistic characters derive from their militancy without ignoring the contradictions within their naive world-views.
Although The Edukators, directed by Hans Weingartner, is a German-language film, it is set in a global village where all politics are local.
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July 18, 2005:
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