Madame Anne's pupils

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Movie
German title Madame Anne's pupils
Original title Les héritiers
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 2014
length 105 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 10
Rod
Director Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar
script Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar
Ahmed Dramé
production Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar
Pierre Kubel
camera Myriam Vinocour
cut Benoît Quinon
occupation

The students of Madame Anne (original title: Les héritiers , French for "the heirs".) Is a based on a true story French film drama by Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar , which on October 7, 2014 at the Festival du Film Francophone de Namur his It premiered and was released in German cinemas on November 5, 2015.

action

The teacher Anne Gueguen teaches history at the Léon Blum high school in the Paris suburb of Créteil. This area of ​​the city is considered a social hotspot. Because her students are divided by seemingly irreconcilable differences, but she still has to impart respect and discipline to them, the ambitious Madame Anne wants to show her students that they are by no means a hopeless bunch without a future and enrolls them in a prestigious national competition, his The topic is children and young people in the system of the National Socialist concentration camps . At first, their students are not very enthusiastic about this idea, but when they speak to a survivor of the Holocaust, the actually difficult young people begin to be interested not only in the topic, but also fundamentally in their attitude to their own existence and to life in general change.

reception

André Wesche from the Augsburger Allgemeine sums up that the film is “extremely moving and gives hope”. The film service judges that the film feeds “on its charismatic leading actress”, but criticizes that “the emotional music” sometimes exaggerates “the gesture of dismay” and thereby “crosses the line to kitsch”.

Awards

Ahmed Dramé was for his role in the film The students of Madame Anne in 2015 when César as Vielversprechendster actor nominated. Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar was nominated for the Open Eyes Jury Award at the Nuremberg International Human Rights Film Festival 2015 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of release for Madame Anne's students . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2015 (PDF; test number: 153 779 K).
  2. Age rating for Madame Anne's pupils . Youth Media Commission .
  3. André Wesche: The students of Madame Anne: A teacher with hope In: Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung Online, November 5, 2015.
  4. ^ The pupils of Madame Anne. Filmdienst , 22/15, accessed on November 9, 2015 (short review ).