A cinematic Masterpiece and Germany’s entry for the 2023 Academy Awards.Ilker Çatak’s film is not just another film about the school system, but actually a tangible psychological Thriller that just happens to play among students, the school staff, parents and teachers. The title is giving a bit away, but actually not much. Doing the right thing is not always the way to go. As the saying goes “no good deed goes unpunished”… Not being able to say what she thinks most of the time, restrictions and trying to connect both teacher world and student world kind of are tearing our main character apart. A special surrealism runs through the film because of the often radical behavior of the school towards the students. All in all, while nothing novel or unexpected is presented, we get a broad overview over common opinions involving dealing with small theft, racism, immigration, adolescent Behavior, and last but not least interactions between students, parents and teachers. Nothing we see here is unrealistic but sufficiently complex to keep us involved and interested. The direction, the acting, the cinematography, the sound design, the set and costumes are really as good as we heard they were.