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04/01/06
The Edukators (2005)
68 %
Reviews Counted: 72 Fresh: 49 Rotten:23 Average Rating: 6.4/10
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The Edukators engagingly plays out the clash between youthful idealism and older pragmaticism.
Rated: 15 [See Full Rating]
Runtime: 2 hrs 9 mins
Theatrical Release: 15-04-2005
Synopsis: Jule is a waitress who can't make ends meet. She moves in with her boyfriend Peter and his friend Jan, two young men united by their passion to change the world. But Jule has a secret: an auto accident in the past has burdened her with lifetime payments to a successful businessman named... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Daniel Bruhl, Burghart Klaussner, Stipe Erceg, Julia Jentsch, Petra Zieser
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02/09/06
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Bruhl is as good here as he was in Goodbye Lenin and there's chemistry between all three characters, so you really believe in their complicated relationship.
04/23/05
The attractive cast also deliver very likeable performances, which convey the pleasure their idealistic characters derive from their militancy without ignoring the contradictions within their naive world-views.
04/19/05
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Its anti-capitalist rhetoric doesn't always agree and sometimes its soundtrack is just too on-the-ball not to be a damn distraction but it's incredibly entertaining.
04/17/05
The Edukators manages to combine political discourse, a love-triangle and a hostage plot without sacrificing its graceful humour
04/14/05
Top Critic
There's such an important theme behind this gripping thriller that you can forgive the filmmaker for dragging it out a bit too long.
11/08/04
It's deeply heartfelt and affecting, filmed with a nervy camera style that lends a vivid immediacy to the action.
03/01/07
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Much too didactic, obvious and simple-minded in its action story involving a radical act.
11/18/05
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10/15/05
Top Critic
What is interesting to watch are the unexpected turns that occur when a jilted lover, a kidnapped rich capitalist and a pair of new lovers are cooped up in an isolated chalet.
10/07/05
Plays out like an ambivalent political tract, full of dissatisfaction but no conclusions.
10/07/05
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09/26/05
Top Critic
Although The Edukators, directed by Hans Weingartner, is a German-language film, it is set in a global village where all politics are local.
09/22/05
This supposedly progressive movie unintentionally delivers a sexist message as old as the garden of Eden: Don't let a woman get involved, because she'll mess things up.
09/16/05
Captures the frustration of those who sense something deeply dysfunctional in the political and economic status quo but feel impotent do anything about it.
09/15/05
Unless you're the sort who has a Che Guevara T-shirt tucked away somewhere in your closet, the needlessly long The Edukators wears out its welcome.
09/09/05
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