The Teacher’s Lounge Review: A Suspenseful Drama With A Stunning Lead Performance

It’s not often that a school-based drama is so intense and thrilling, but that’s essentially what describes director Ilker Çatak’s The Teacher’s Lounge (Das Lehrerzimmer in German), a film he co-wrote with Johannes Duncker. The German film delivers a heart-pounding story that will leave you with quite a few emotions and thoughts well after its closing scene. What makes The Teacher’s Lounge exceptional is in the way it explores the lack of trust between students and teachers, who are so fixated on finding a perpetrator that they abuse their power. With an outstanding performance by Leonie Benesch, whose interiority is on full display, the school drama is sharply written and psychologically arresting.