Manipulative teacher plays the "system"...
“The Teacher,&#34; loosely inspired by true events, is a dark comedy about a self-serving middle school teacher with a lack of moral compass. In an elementary school classroom in Czechoslovakia in 1983, with Soviet-style Communism in its last years, a new teacher, Maria Drazdechova (Zuzana Maurery), greets her students with the request that each announces what his/her parents do for a living. With tremendous ingenuity and determined deviousness, she uses that information to wheedle favors, both large and small, from each family.<br /><br />After one of the students attempts suicide, however, the director of the school has no choice but to call for an emergency parents’ meeting to remove the teacher, but because Ms. Drazdechova is also a high-ranking official of the Communist Party, parents are hesitant to sign the petition. The film examines how each family must wrestle with standing up for what they believe in or silently keeping the status quo.<br /><br />Though the basic story is serious, director Jan Hrebejk incorporates both humor and irony. He highlights a system in which favoritism was rampant, and career advancement depended on currying favor with superiors. Ms. Drazdechova uses her position in the Party as leverage to get her students’ parents to comply with her wishes and rewarding her students based on their parents’ fulfillment of her many extracurricular favors. The scheme of the teacher is challenged by four parents who object and bring the matter to the principal.<br /><br />Ms. Maurery is excellent as the unprincipled teacher, who is gradually revealed as a shameless manipulator of the system for her own personal gain. She has perfected a method of taking advantage of both students and parents. The reaction of the parents varies markedly with some incensed at the teacher’s exploitation of her position and others accepting of helping one another and downplaying the situation. The film is a fascinating portrait of a time and place where this abuse was made possible, and an indictment of a political system that encouraged it.<br /><br />Included on the widescreen DVD release is the bonus 15-minute short film “Sacrilege,” directed by Christophe M. Saber. “The Teacher,” unrated, is in Slovak, with English subtitles.
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