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.
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
It's as if the Symbionese Liberation Army had nabbed one of The Big Chill's weekenders.
A deft, entertaining story that mixes menace with charm and satire with seriousness.
This year’s most articulate statement on film about the current disillusion with politics among young people everywhere in the Western world.
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.
A mixed bag of style and ethics fluidly formed into an entertaining and thought-provoking whole.
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.
American movies don't have the capacity for such delicacy -- nor can they easily present their characters and situations as impartially as this one does.
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.
Ambling drama shows an exasperating lack of economy and a weakness for diatribe dialogue, but becomes progressively more involving after a laborious start.
For a movie that cautions against the crass commercialization of countercultural iconography, The Edukators seems far less interested in changing the world than in printing up some really cool T-shirts.
The first film to anatomize the contradictions of the rage-against-the-machine generation.
Weingartner’s movie is never quite as keen-edged as it hopes or needs to be.
The dialogue between the captive and the captors gets a little didactic, and the ending is as contrived as it is cynical.
While The Edukators often suffers from static pacing, it never completely stalls, as Weingartner brings this engaging, thankfully dogma-lite film to a satisfying close.
While openly acknowledging the failures of the past, Weingartner and cowriter Katharina Held hold out hope, even in an age when rebellion itself has become a cheap commodity.
Director and co-writer Hans Weingartner provides a witty, genre-busting script for a talented cast.
Three young Berliners frustrated at the iniquities of global capitalism cross the line that separates provocation and protest from serious crime.
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