Alphabet (film)

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Movie
German title alphabet
Original title alphabet
Country of production Austria
original language German
Publishing year 2013
length 113 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
JMK 0
Rod
Director Erwin Wagenhofer
script Sabine Kriechbaum ,
Erwin Wagenhofer
production Prisma Film ( Mathias Forberg , Viktoria Salcher )
Rommel Film ( Peter Rommel )
music André Stern
camera Erwin Wagenhofer
occupation

Alphabet is an Austrian documentary that throws a critical light on the increasing competition in education.

The film, released in 2013, is the third Austrian documentary by Erwin Wagenhofer after We Feed the World and Let's Make Money . It started on October 11, 2013 in Austria and October 31, 2013 in Germany .

content

The film shows comments from various people on the subject of education:

  • In a lecture, education expert Ken Robinson encourages non-conformist thinking and creativity.
  • The educational researcher Andreas Schleicher once designed the PISA studies and is impressed by the willingness of the Chinese to perform.
  • Beijing Education / Pedagogy Department professor Yang Dongping is concerned about the pressure to perform in China's school system. The pressure of competition is increasing and nowhere is the suicide rate among schoolchildren as high as here.
  • The brain researcher Gerald Hüther advises against forcing people to educate themselves. You can only invite them.
  • The pedagogue Arno Stern has had children and young people paint in his “painting location” in Paris for 60 years. It invites you to play freely and not to "acquired art and abstraction".
  • André Stern, Arno Stern's son, never went to school and works as a guitar maker.
  • The Hamburg student Yakamoz Karakurt complains in an open letter about the school system and calls for more time for a life of her own outside of school.
  • Thomas Sattelberger , until 2012 Chief Human Resources Officer at Deutsche Telekom , warns of "shortening life to the economy".
  • Pablo Pineda shows that the existing school system has a one-sided image of man, which is characterized by competition, selection and obedience. For him, that's the concept of fear. He introduces the "concept of love".
Erwin Wagenhofer, with alphabet in the category "Best Documentary" for the Austrian Film Award 2014 nominated

criticism

" We have to live differently ," Wagenhofer said about We feed the World. This urgency is what defines his work. In doing so, he sets himself apart from the dramatic catastrophe to which some of his colleagues succumb and becomes a nuisance, because it is not the system that is responsible for him, but each individual. He has never made the demand for one's own attitude more urgent than in Alphabet. "

- Oliver Kaever : The time from November 1, 2013

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for the alphabet . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2013 (PDF; test number: 140 701 K).
  2. ↑ Age designation for alphabet . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Entry in the IMDb