The Teachers' Lounge

This was excellent! The use of sound and silence was used to great effect. Great performances! I appreciated the look at bias, both from the supporting characters and the main character. Definitely worth watching! 5 stars

Why is the audience rating so low? The critics got this one right. I'm a retired teacher and I can completely relate to the emotions going on in this film. As well as the dialogues that are taking place. The acting? Phenomenal. It's like every role was perfectly cast. The kids? They do an outstanding job as well. Great film! All the way!

Very tense but throughly unsatisfying. A waste of time.

My review is for the German language with English subtitles version. If you speak and understand German, this might be a great movie. However, I haven't spoken German in 50 years (lived in Europe). The rapid speaking means the subtitles appear only briefly. This left me straining to read and I was unable to enjoy the plot. I'm, not sure how this can be fixed. Most dubbing is done too poorly so understandably not used here.

did they spy on me and recorded my typical day or why else this whole movie looks so familiar?

I'll have to get back to you on this one. I just finished the movie. It still needs to simmer. If that was the goal, mission accomplished.

There are two issues: 1.) No one is mature enough to let the "investigation" unfold naturally, only adding their own accusations for the purpose of protecting themselves, making the matter worse and worse. 2.) Our protaginist could've solved the issue if she wasn't so afraid to stir things up. The lack of flexibility from the prinicipal is what ultimately caused such a small issue to get so out of hand.

A school admin is accused of stealing from a teacher and is suspended, pending an investigation. Meanwhile, the admin’s son, Oskar, continues to attend class with the accusing teacher. Students and faculty are divided on who to believe and what to do as the boy’s behavior becomes more erratic. Students are allowed to sit on the council that decides how to punish Oskar. A libelous edition of the school newspaper is published by students defaming the teacher as she struggles to hold on to her idealism. Students refuse to participate in class and yet no punishments are dealt. Parents lash out against the teacher in person and online, while some of the teachers (not all) worry about student rights and privacy as they lose control of their school. In the end, Oskar is expelled, but when he refuses to leave the school, even the police make sure not to lay a finger on him as they carry him out on his chair. Finely crafted with superb performances; interesting, and infuriating, The Teachers’ Lounge may illustrate where the downfall of Western society will come from better than any film I’ve seen. Lost, entitled youth and the feckless adults that enable them.

(Mauro Lanari) Natural selection, aka Darwinian power relations as a cosmic law of abuse, oppression, predatoriness, parasitism, is a well-known fact, there is no heterogenesis of ends, and seeing it applied in the claustrophobic scholastic microcosm should not arouse particular effects. Yet in "Das Lehrerzimmer" the German director of Turkish origin transfers Lorenz's butterfly effect into a thriller with Hitchcockian rigor, and the result is remarkable also thanks to the entire technical crew and the acting skill.

I think this would be a good movie for some people to watch if they would like to know how stressful teaching can be. Not that it is 100% realistic in every detail but having taught for 30 years yeah it gives people who have not taught an idea of the stress level and why so many teachers quit.