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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
Starts strong, with an ingratiatingly anarchic vibe, but quickly devolves into a hectoring socialist lecture: a cinematic version of Kenner's My First Revolution playset.
Weingartner’s movie is never quite as keen-edged as it hopes or needs to be.
Much too didactic, obvious and simple-minded in its action story involving a radical act.
Opts for a bland middle road...a mixture that comes across as rather a cop-out.
Completely devoid of the usual humor that goes along with such a film, The Edukators isn't quite funny and isn’t quite sad, and unhappily, not quite believable.
The dialogue between the captive and the captors gets a little didactic, and the ending is as contrived as it is cynical.
too sweet-natured and, at 126 minutes, too desultory for its own good
Shot on shoddy, harsh-lit DV, The Edukators casts Hardenberg as the avuncular voice of reason, his fat-cat complacency the destination point of a rational adulthood.
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.
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July 18, 2005:
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