An old fashioned high school principal in a small late 19th century Prussian town realizes he has been living in a dream world, and wakes up to reality when a favorite student has a bad experience at a shady night club and commits suicide..
Is it worth your time? If you like movies that feel like they’ve been sitting in a basement for eighty years, sure. This isn’t a popcorn flick. It’s a slow-burn study of a man watching his own moral compass snap in half. If you hate slow dialogue and people staring intensely into middle distance, skip it. If you like 1...
Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Carl Froelich
Carl Froelich
Community
Log in to comment.
"Is it worth your time? If you like movies that feel like they’ve been sitting in a basement for eighty years, sure. This isn’t a popcorn flick. It’s a slow-burn study of a man watching his own moral compass snap in half. If you hate slow dialogue and people staring intensely into middle distance, skip it. If you like 1930s German cinema that feels like a heavy wool blanket, you’ll probably find something to chew on here. Emil Jannings is basically the whole show. He plays this principal with su..."
Robert A. Stemmle, Arno Holz, Erich Ebermayer, Oskar Jerschke
Germany
