Story
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?
Director
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
Die Schule auf dem Zauberberg
Documentary Feature
English, Turkish
Kaleidoscope | FF2018
Germany
2018
90 min
OV with German subtitles
Radek Wegrzyn
Radek Wegrzyn
Fabian Gasmia, Radek Wegrzyn
Johannes Louis, Matthias Bolliger, Timon Schäppi, Ferhat Topraklar
Jamin Benazzouz
Octavia Gloggengießer
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