Synopse
DOCUMENTARY A rare look inside the most expensive boarding school in the world, where pupils are educated to be world leaders.They are the offspring of millionaires and oligarchs and attend an elite boarding school. One boy stands out: Berk. A loner with problems in almost every subject – because his life after school has been planned down the tiniest detail by his father. Berk secretly longs for a simple life in his home city of Istanbul. And he misses his friends. He remains uninspired at school, until one day an unusual topic is introduced: the future. But is there enough time left for him to turn his results around and pass his final exams?
Regie
RADEK WEGRZYN (*1977) was born in Poland and studied film at the University of Film in Babelsberg. He came to the attention of critics and audiences with his feature film Father, Son and Holy Cow (2011) and the music documentary Violinissimo (2012).
Info
Original Title: Die Schule auf dem Zauberberg
Category: Documentary feature
Section: Kaleidoskop
Version & Subtitles: Turkish, English OV with German subtitles
Director & Screenplay: Radek Wegrzyn
Production country: Germany
Year of Production: 2018
Length: 90 min
Producer: Fabian Gasmia, Radek Wegrzyn
Production company: DETAiLFILM GmbH
Cinematography: Johannes Louis, Matthias Bolliger, Timon Schäppi, Ferhat Topraklar
Editor: Jamin Benazzouz
Music: Octavia Gloggengießer
Distributor: farbfilm verleih GmbH




