{"id":2681,"date":"2018-03-18T12:12:52","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T01:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/?p=2681"},"modified":"2026-01-26T21:18:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T10:18:29","slug":"the-teacher-april-28th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/the-teacher-april-28th\/","title":{"rendered":"The Teacher &#8211; April 28th"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre><strong>CZECH REPUBLIC 2016\r\n<\/strong><strong>Comedy 1'42 min \r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2147\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.euraw.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/M.jpg?resize=150%2C52\" alt=\"M\" width=\"150\" height=\"52\" \/><\/strong>\r\nDirector: <span class=\"o-value\">Jan H\u0159ebejk\r\n<\/span>Cast: Zuzana Maur\u00e9ry, Peter Bebjak, Zuzana Konecn\u00e1\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i2XGBtvSzJM?version=3&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom Oscar-nominated writer\/director Jan H\u0159ebejk (Divided We Fall), THE TEACHER is a wildly entertaining black comedy inspired by the true story of a Communist-era school teacher who manipulated her pupils and their families for unprecedented personal gain.<\/p>\n<p>The early 1980s, Czechoslovakia. At the start of a new term at a suburban high school, a seemingly empathetic and kind new teacher, the middle-aged Maria Drazd\u011bchov\u00e1 greets her class. She asks them to introduce themselves and share what their parents do for a living, explaining that it\u2019s important to know how their parents might collectively help the group. Soon after, she gradually begins to pressure both students and parents by seeking favours \u2013 grocery collection, handyman assistance, lifts and haircuts \u2013 and connecting them with special treatment in class and, most significantly, good grades.<\/p>\n<p>Before long Maria\u2019s demands grow more complex and dangerous, so when a serious incident finally draws her unscrupulous behaviour to her colleagues, the principal calls a secret meeting, seeking parents to sign a petition to move \u201cComrade Drazd\u011bchov\u00e1\u201d on from the school. But her high connections with the Communist Party hang above everyone in the room, and it\u2019s soon evident that standing up for what\u2019s right may be much easier said than done.<\/p>\n<p>With production design and cinematography that recreates the era to wonderful effect, THE TEACHER delivers a timeless and universal story of opportunism, bias and human dignity. Laced with wicked humour and standout performances, this rousing morality tale employs a delicate touch to skewer not only the complications of communism, but the human characteristics that ensure it never quite works out as expected.\u201d (Palace Films)<\/p>\n<p class=\"alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/movie-passes\/\">Book tickets for this screening.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/screening-venue\/\" target=\"_blank\">Screening at Loop Project Space &amp; Bar, 23 Meyers Pl, Melbourne<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CZECH REPUBLIC 2016 Comedy 1&#8217;42 min Director: Jan H\u0159ebejk Cast: Zuzana Maur\u00e9ry, Peter Bebjak, Zuzana Konecn\u00e1 \u201cFrom Oscar-nominated writer\/director Jan H\u0159ebejk (Divided We Fall), THE TEACHER is a wildly entertaining&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[29,39,15,16],"class_list":["post-2681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euraw-stories","tag-29","tag-film","tag-films","tag-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2681"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2683,"href":"https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions\/2683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}