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The Edukators
Directed by
Hans Weingartner
R
2004
2h 7m
Drama
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7.4
70%
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Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home.
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Cast of The Edukators
Daniel Brühl
Jan
Julia Jentsch
Jule
Stipe Erceg
Peter
Burghart Klaußner
Justus Hardenberg
Peer Martiny
Villenbesitzer
Petra Zieser
Villenbesitzerin
Laura Schmidt
Tochter
Sebastian Butz
Sohn
Oliver Bröcker
Globalisierungsgegner
Hanns Zischler
Vermieter
Claudio Caiolo
Paolo
Bernhard Bettermann
Jules Chef
Hans Weingartner
Director / Writer / Producer
Katharina Held
Writer
Sabine Holtgreve
Producer
Georg Steinert
Producer
Antonin Svoboda
Producer
The Edukators Ratings & Reviews
Arizona Republic
Kerry Lengel
Captures the frustration of those who sense something deeply dysfunctional in the political and economic status quo but feel impotent do anything about it.
Detroit News
Tom Long
The situations feel real, the injustices believable and the human frailty is all too recognizable.
Detroit Free Press
John Monaghan
Intelligent, entertaining and, yes, educational as it looks at the nature of political activism now and then.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Cater
Like its protagonists, it means well, but gets mixed up. Too easily.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Sticking it to the man, German-style, is the subject of this smart, kicky little gem that owes as much to Guy Debord and the Situationists of yore.
San Francisco Chronicle
Walter V. Addiego
With greater critical distance on the filmmaker's part, and a disciplined use of the editing scissors, it might have been something substantial.
Seattle Times
Tom Keogh
Ambitious but ultimately lackluster drama about the conflict between extremist politics and selfish human nature.
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
The whole thing feels messy, painful, funny and believable, just like that hideous circus known as real life.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
There's an evenhanded humanism flowing through 'The Edukators that may strike doctrinaire viewers on either side of the divide as mushy, but it's tough enough for the rest of us to chew on for a long time.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
For a film that points out so much wrong with German society and shows such dubious, dangerous behavior, it leaves the audience with high spirits and a sense of crazy exhilaration.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
A deft, entertaining story that mixes menace with charm and satire with seriousness.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
This year's most articulate statement on film about the current disillusion with politics among young people everywhere in the Western world.
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
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.
Variety
David Rooney
Ambling drama shows an exasperating lack of economy and a weakness for diatribe dialogue, but becomes progressively more involving after a laborious start.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
The first film to anatomize the contradictions of the rage-against-the-machine generation.
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
Weingartner's movie is never quite as keen-edged as it hopes or needs to be.
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
The dialogue between the captive and the captors gets a little didactic, and the ending is as contrived as it is cynical.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Director and co-writer Hans Weingartner provides a witty, genre-busting script for a talented cast.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
Three young Berliners frustrated at the iniquities of global capitalism cross the line that separates provocation and protest from serious crime.
Village Voice
Jessica Winter
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.
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