Mr. Bachmann and His Class

Name: Mr. Bachmann and His Class
Genre: Documentary
Released: February 20, 2022
Duration: 217 min
Rating: 89
Cast: Aynur Bal, Dieter Bachmann, Önder Cavdar

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MUBI | Release Date (Streaming): February 20, 2022 | Not Rated

Starring: Aynur Bal, Dieter Bachmann, Önder Cavdar

Summary: In a German city with a complex history of both excluding and integrating foreigners, a charismatic elementary school teacher provides his pupils, who all come from different countries originally, with the key to feeling at home in Germany and becoming citizens of the world. [MUBI]

Director: Maria Speth

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 217 min

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A.O. Scott

Feb 24, 2022

This isn’t a heroic-teacher drama about idealism in the face of adversity. It’s an acknowledgment of the hard work of learning, and the magic of simple decency. Read full review

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Diego Semerene

Mar 5, 2021

The documentary exists within the very restricted pantheon of films that successfully reap the cinematic potential of pedagogy. Read full review

Sheri Linden

Mar 11, 2021

One of the most effortlessly absorbing and deeply encouraging nonfiction films of recent memory. Read full review

IndieWire Christian Blauvelt

Mar 5, 2021

This is one of the most hopeful movies you’re likely to see anytime soon. Read full review

Jessica Kiang

Mar 5, 2021

[A] lengthy but absorbing and illuminating documentary. Read full review

Christopher Machell

Dec 19, 2022

At almost four hours in length, Mr. Bachmann and His Class is long, but its enormous characters and emotions more than fill the space, headed by an astonishingly charismatic and inspiring teacher in Dieter Bachmann. Read full review

Wendy Ide

Dec 19, 2022

It’s an investment in time, certainly, but this profound and hopeful picture justifies every second of its three hours and 38 minute running time. Read full review

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JLuis_001

Feb 27, 2022

''Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.''

- Albert Einstein. Mr. Bachmann and His Class is documentary of over 3 and a half hours that works with a truth that is well known but also continues to be encouraging to watch. The teacher that changes''Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.''

- Albert Einstein.

Mr. Bachmann and His Class is documentary of over 3 and a half hours that works with a truth that is well known but also continues to be encouraging to watch.
The teacher that changes your life is the one that will leave you with lessons that you will carry with you for the rest of your life.

I recognize that the documentary could have been more concise. The last hour I think was a grip of over-ambition for the director, but overall I'm comforted to see that although they may be isolated cases around the world, there are still teachers with the true vocation to teach a youth so in need of education.… Expand

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