“The Teacher”, by Jan Hrebejk + discussion
Within the programming of
Addicted to Toxicity
4 Jul 2019
Duration: | 2 hours 45 minutes |
The second session of the series, "A type of toxic person", features The Teacher. In the 1980s a new teacher, Maria Drazdechova, arrives at a school in Bratislava and changes the lives of the parents and pupils, but not for the better. Her devious and corrupt ways rock the school's foundations.
The Teacher, by Jan Hrebejk. Slovakia, 2016. 102'. Original soundtrack with Spanish subtitles
Discussion led by: José Luís Sánchez Noriega, film critic and lecturer in film and audiovisual history at Universidad Cumplutense de Madrid.