B


The movie is the German adaptation of the book of the same name and is about an experiment a teacher initiated with a class in high school to show that dictatorship and autocracy are still possible nowadays.

I have always liked the book and the trailers to this film looked quite promising. At the end, I was only slightly disappointed and I can imagine people liking this more than I did. For one, I thought that changing the ending from the book wasn't such a good idea, especially since the new ending in the movie goes a bit too over the top, trying too hard to make a point.

For another, I wasn't a fan of everyone's acting in the film. There were some solid performances among the kids in the film, but for each good one, there was also a mediocre/bad one. That said, ther was a ton of good stuff here too. Jurgen Vogel did a very good leading job here, some ideas were very well-translated to the film and it helped to identify oneself with some of the stuff the characters are doing in this film. It was pretty fascinating...just very flawd and somewhat clichéd in spots.

I just want to see this because of Jürgen Vogel. Oh and I like the story.