The village teacher

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Movie
German title The village teacher
Original title Venkovský učitel
Country of production Czech Republic
France
Germany
original language Czech
Publishing year 2008
length 120 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Bohdan Slama
script Bohdan Slama
production Pavel Strnad ,
Petr Oukropec ,
Thanassis Karathanos ,
Karl Baumgartner
music Vladimír Godár
camera Diviš Marek
cut Jan Daňhel
occupation

The Village Teacher is a Czech drama film from 2008 . Directed by Bohdan Sláma , who also wrote the script. The film won several awards in 2008 and 2009. a. in Stockholm for the best camera and in Prague the Czech Lion for the best leading actress and the best screenplay. The acting achievements of the two main actors are almost consistently mentioned in all reviews with particular praise.

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The 35-year-old teacher Petr comes to a village somewhere in the Czech Republic. He has given up his job at a high school in Prague and now teaches natural history at the village school. After a short time he meets Marie and befriends her. The woman is around ten years older than him, has long been widowed and runs a farm with her son Láďa. His friend Beruška is there to visit. She happens to be attending the same high school that Petr has just left and where Petr's mother still teaches. Petr is often asked what prompted him to change to the village school from there, and only hesitantly does he report about the tensions between him and his mother. He also tells Marie about his girlfriend, whom he separated from and who is now married to someone else.

Petr and Marie spend a lot of time together. He helps her with the field work and Marie feels drawn to him. However, he refuses to let her approach her, which Marie attributes to the age difference. Soon after, Petr visits his parents in Prague and only now tells his mother that he is gay. When his mother learns that he has no boyfriend, she advises him: “You shouldn't be alone. Loneliness is terrible. ”After his return to the village, Marie asks if Petr could give her son some tutoring. Láďa, however, behaves so rebelliously that the first attempt fails.

Petr gets a surprise visit from his ex-boyfriend, who cannot accept the separation from him. Only when Petr explains to him that he feels no love for him do they both abandon the past and attend a village festival together. In contrast to Petr, who is a rather calm person, his ex-boyfriend leaves nothing out. Marie's son Láďa and his girlfriend Beruška are supplied with alcohol and other drugs by him and a short time later it ends with a fight in which Láďa is defeated. Beruška dumps Láďa and continues celebrating with Petr's ex-boyfriend. The two of them leave the village together the next morning. Láďa suffers from the loss of his girlfriend and Petr gives the young man moral support. A friendly relationship develops between the two and the tutoring resumes. After passing his exam, Láďa celebrates with Petr in the village community and gets drunk after a disappointing phone call with Beruška.

Too drunk to come home, Petr takes the young man to his accommodation. He prepares a bed for him and when he sleeps, he hugs him. He starts caressing him and his hand slides lower and lower. Láďa wakes up, pushes Petr away indignantly and searches for the distance. Petr wants to apologize the next day, but he is turned away. When Marie witnesses the argument between her son and Petr, she confronts the teacher. He claims that he raped her son, whereupon Marie chases him from the farm. She learns from her son that Petr grabbed his penis. Shortly afterwards, Marie found Petr in a cow pasture where he tried to kill himself with pills. However, Petr regains consciousness. She takes him to her yard with a tractor and wants to take him into the house, which her son wants to prevent with all his might. He insults Petr as a gay pig who is supposed to die and packs his things and leaves the house. Marie takes care of the teacher, who is still completely dazed by the tablets.

Láďa turns up in Prague and intercepts Beruška from high school, but she is not interested in renewing their relationship. So he leaves Prague and walks next to the motorway with an unknown destination. Beruška has called Marie in the meantime and told her that Láďa was with her. When Petr found out, he drove to the grammar school, where he met his mother, who he said he could no longer work as a teacher. Back in the village he informs Marie of the unknown whereabouts of her son and his intention to move back to Prague and look for a job there. Marie doesn't show anything, agrees and leaves. Petr remains standing for a long time and then follows her. Marie is crying and when Petr comes to her, they hug.

Instead of going to Prague, Petr finally appears in the teachers' room at the village school and asks if he could stay. The joyful approval of the headmaster and a teacher ends suddenly when Petr asks a question. “I wanted to ask you whether it bothers you that I'm homosexual?” After a brief period of reflection, the director is the first to find his language again and explains that this would be officially a regular thing today and that the teacher would also be positive Stammered after her mouth had stayed open before.

Láďa returns home, but wants to leave immediately when he sees that Petr is in the house. Marie asks her son to stay and to forgive Petr. There is not much time to talk because a cow is calving. It doesn't take long for Láďa to help pull the calf out of the cow. The three of them admire the calf in the straw and Láďa kneels between Marie and Petr.

Others

In the Czech Republic the film "Venkovský učitel" was premiered in cinemas on March 20, 2008 and on August 27, 2009 it was released in German cinemas in German dubbing under the title "Der Dorflehrer", which has the same meaning.

Reviews

“Understanding takes time - for that reason alone, the bright, friendly drama cannot be forced into a story corset, just as life cannot be squeezed into one category. A dignified existence is not possible without forgiveness and trust. The talented Czech director describes the way there quietly, but again and again touchingly; The impressive actors also contribute to this. "

- kino.de

“Sláma's attempts to condense his story into an almost parable-like narrative about human nature through such references seem exhausted, some things in the 'village teacher' full of pictures and symbols are overdetermined . [...] The extraordinary and empathetic performances are the big pluses of Der Dorflehrer . "

- filmstarts.de

“Sensitive, restrained drama about the longing for love and the pain of rejection, mirrored with tension in great images of the summer landscape and comedically designed secondary characters from the village cosmos. With all the suffering mentioned, the carefully and calmly developed narrative is shaped by an affirmative, hopeful attitude. "

- Lexicon of international film

“With great pictures, which of course indulge in the wonderful nature for a little too long now and then, Bohdan Sláma [...] staged a sensitively told story about two people, reason and desire, longing and vulnerability. Thanks to the good actors, you can forgive the one or the other bumpy dialogue. "

- prisma.de

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Release certificate for the village teacher . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2009 (PDF; test number: 118 596 K).
  2. ↑ The village teacher at kino.de
  3. ↑ The village teacher at filmstarts.de
  4. ↑ The village teacher. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 5, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  5. ↑ The village teacher. In: prisma.de. prisma-Verlag , accessed on October 5, 2017 .