When one of her students is suspected of theft, teacher Carla Nowak decides to get to the bottom of the matter. Caught between her ideals and the school system, the consequences of her actions threaten to break her.
"I would prefer not to." It's a quote that filmmaker İlker Çatak loves so much that he's wearing it on a T-shirt during this interview. Furthermore, the sentiment behind it and the story that it's pulled from — Herman Melville's Bartleby, the Scrivener — provided inspiration for his new film, The Teachers' Lounge. The film follows Carla Nowak (Leonie Benesch), an idealistic new teacher ...
It starts when things go missing from the teachers’ lounge, leading the faculty to suspect a student. From the beginning, determining the identity of the thief is problematic, both in how fingers are pointed and how interrogations are handled.“The Teachers’ Lounge” displays a confident management of pacing and tone, never resorting to monologuing or manufactured conflict.
