Using the contemporary radical movement as its touchstone, Hans Weingartner's new German film "The Edukators" uses a trio of young Germans and one older, rich one to explore youth movements of two ...

The uneasy confrontation between two generations -- contemporary youth who have appropriated the anger and idealism of the late '60s protest movement, and former radicals now comfortably ensconced in ...

Perhaps the harshest criticism of the new German film The Edukators is that it doesn't make you feel any better edukated. A drama about young activists' desire for political change, and their ...

Budding revolutionaries may feel inspired to don their freshly minted Che T-shirts and check out “The Edukators,” given that its main characters are young people who search their souls by day (“I ...

The Edukators surf the new wave of smart, sophisticated and popular German language cinema which – even better – tackles ticklishly controversial social and political subject matter(1). Here Jan ...

In the striking opening scene of “The Edukators,” a traveling family of four returns to its comfortably appointed home and finds its possessions rearranged, as if by a ghostly anarchist. Chairs are ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Two young people are drinking on a rooftop overlooking Berlin, talking in the cool night air about revolution. Jan (Daniel Bruhl), angry ...

Given the vast scale, and dynamic importance to real-world affairs of that multi-faceted phenomenon of global solidarity loosely defined as the anti-capitalist movement, it is disappointing that ...

In November 1999, the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle made national news, both for the carnival-like tone of some of the massive attendant protests, and for the city's violent police ...

Thefirst German film to screen in competition in Cannes in a decade, HansWeingartner's second feature The Edukators is a fresh and likable taleof youthful idealism. Boosted by a standout performance ...

Berlin. The present day. Jan (Daniel Bruehl) and Peter (Stipe Erceg) make up a two-man cadre. Describing themselves as "the edukators", they break into mansions and rearrange the furniture with a Dada ...