Locked in Society

Apr 14, 2022

1h 37m

★ 6.3

Overview

On a Friday afternoon, there was an unexpected knock on the door of the staff room of a city high school. An ambitious father is willing to go to extremes to get his son admitted to high school. The six teachers who are still at school so shortly before the start of the weekend now have to find out the hard way. After some unexpected twists and embarrassing revelations, true abysses open up for everyone involved...

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Bantry Bay Productions

Deutsche Columbia Filmproduktion

Sony Pictures International Productions

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Cast

Peter Mertens

Florian David Fitz

Heidi Lohmann

Anke Engelke

Klaus Engelhardt

Justus von Dohnányi

Sarah Schuster

Nilam Farooq

Holger Arndt

Thomas Loibl

Bernd Vogel

Torben Kessler

Manfred Prohaska

Thorsten Merten

Florian Beinacker

Serkan Kaya

Eberhard Lichtenstein

Ronald Kukulies

Fabian Prohaska

Nick Julius Schuck

Benjamin Mehltau

Carl Phillip Benzschawel

Harald Mehltau

Jürgen Sarkiss

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