The Teacher

2023 [ARABIC]

Drama / Thriller / War

3
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 83% · 29 reviews
IMDb Rating 7.7/10 10 739 739

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Plot summary

A Palestinian school teacher struggles to reconcile his life-threatening commitment to political resistance with his emotional support for one of his students and the chance of a new romantic relationship with a British volunteer worker.

Director

Top cast

Stanley Townsend as Simon Cohen
Imogen Poots as Lisa
Andrea Irvine as Rachel Cohen
Paul Herzberg as Liberman
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1.06 GB
1280*694
Arabic 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 58 min
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2.18 GB
1920*1040
Arabic 5.1
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 58 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by lawrencewinter-99236 10 / 10

A beautiful, heart-wrenching story

This film floored me. I left the cinema both feeling the devastating hopelessness of the Teacher's life story, and yet my heart was filled with hope at the courage, hope and resilience he had.The story of Palestine is filled with repeat patterns, and the life of this teacher is no different. With a few burdens and baggage of his own he finds himself embroiled in the unfolding tragedy of a young boy who loses his brother in scuffle with a pack of settlers. The teacher mentors this boy and ultimately ends up with a choice to make right some of his own demons.The story is beautifully told and narrates the complex struggles of the situation in a profoundly elegant manner. It's a story of incredible loss, courage, love, tragedy, regret second chances and sacrifice. The score pays a prefect compliment to the film in its haunting, beautiful simplicity. A true film for the ages, this one hit a home run for me.
Reviewed by k-alghossein 9 / 10

A teacher saving 1002 souls.

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 7 / 10

The Teacher

"Adam" (Muhammad Abed Elrahman) and his recently incarcerated brother "Yacoub" (Mahmoud Bakri) are facing the compulsory demolition of their home to facilitate the arrival of new Israeli settlers and an altercation sees the latter lad killed and the former bent of revenge. His teacher "Basem" (Saleh Bakri) and a visiting volunteer "Lisa" (Imogen Poots) try to intervene to stop him doing anything stupid, and insist that they follow legal process. Well it's fairly clear that that isn't going to deliver very much, but as the teacher and the volunteer start to become a little more familiar with each other, we also realise it's equally clear that "Basem" is a little more hands-on with the resistance than his public persona might suggest. Indeed, when he becomes actively embroiled in the search for a kidnapped Israeli soldier of American parentage, his relationship with both the audience and the increasingly frustrated youth becomes rather different. It's really quite a touching story, this one. Not in an overly sentimental way, but in a manner that illustrates clearly how people feel when they are wronged and then failed by a judicial system that is institutionally stacked against them. State sponsored indifference and cruelty coupled with a general sense of lawlessness (on both sides) potently fuels generations of hatred and mistrust and here we see just how it readily perpetuates long-held feelings of anger and loathing. The production looks grimly authentic, and both both Poots and Bakri deliver well but it's really the effort from the young Elrahman that stands out. Initially a decent and calming influence on his more impetuous brother, circumstances force him to become something that he might not have otherwise been. Once on that course, is he beyond any restraining from taking a journey down a very black brick road? The inclusion of the searching US parents - mainly Stanley Townsend as the father, serves to remind us that there are two sides to the story and that brutality isn't just a tool reserved for whomsoever might appear the oppressor here, and as the story concludes it does so as it starts, amidst an environment of uncertainty and fear whilst ruins pile up around those whose only real goal is to live in peace amongst the olive groves their families have harvested for centuries. It's a powerful drama that only goes to prove how much easier it is to destroy than to build.
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