The Education

Jan 12, 2012

1h 25m

★ 4.0

Overview

Jan is in the last year of his apprenticeship. He wants to be taken on and he wants to do everything right. But what is the right thing to do when restructuring increases the pressure on Jan and his colleagues, when redundancies are the order of the day and the HR manager, who is himself under control and pressure to succeed, keeps a watchful eye on everything? When Jenny, a temporary worker of the same age, joins his company, a tender love story begins. But does love have a chance under these conditions and will Jan manage to rebel against the system?

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

unafilm

WDR

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Cast

Jan Westheim

Joseph Bundschuh

Jenny Sikorski

Anke Retzlaff

Marianne Westheim

Anja Beatrice Kaul

Susanne Ostermeier

Dagmar Sachse

Tobias Hoffmann

Stefan Rudolf

Elena Sova

Charlotte Bohning

Maria

Nathalie Lucia Hahnen

Jens

Gerrit Klein

Stefan Westheim

Frank Voß

Claudia Schäfer

Rita Winkelmann

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