Jessica Kiang However long ago your school days, you can still name your favorite teacher. (Thanks for everything, Dr Sharkey.) Maria Speth’s affectionate and inspiring portrait of an affectionate and inspiring man leaves little doubt that for a vast proportion of the students who’ve passed through the halls of Georg Büchner Comprehensive in the German factory town of Stadtallendorf during the past 17 years, that name will be “Herr Bachmann.”But as much as the laid-back, woolly-hatted Dieter Bachmann — a slouchy man who looks more like a rock-band roadie than a schoolteacher — is the primary subject of this lengthy but absorbing and illuminating documentary, and collectively, the pupils of class 6b emerge as his rambunctious backing band,.
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