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Student Gerber

1981 · 95 min

A slow, suffocating pressure builds as a classroom power struggle turns quietly cruel and then devastating.

Overview
Kurt Gerber is attending his final class and gets into trouble with the math professor, a frustrated self-assured petty bourgeois sadist. The duel ends in catastrophe.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • education
  • power
  • coming-of-age
  • rebellion
  • fate
Places
  • school
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour2
Realism8
Romance1
Tension6
Darkness6
Complexity5
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Wolfgang Glück
Written by
Friedrich Torberg, Wolfgang Glück, Werner Schneyder
Starring
Gabriel Barylli, Werner Kreindl, Romuald Pekny, Paola Loew, Doris Mayer, Eduard Linkers, Oskar Willner, Helmut Janatsch
Cinematography
Xaver Schwarzenberger
Runtime
95 min
Country
Austria
Languages
German

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