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Good films about the teaching profession are in fact nothing more than stories about people who can understand and support the student in all his aspirations, as well as help to reveal the potential inherent in him.
The work of teachers is difficult to overestimate. Their contribution to the development of not only individuals, but also the whole nation, is colossal. That is why their activities have repeatedly become the object of interest of filmmakers.
Here are the top 10 films about teachers.
10 We’ll live until Monday | 1968
History teacher Melnikov, performed by the unsurpassed Vyacheslav Tikhonov, is a thoughtful, serious, strict and demanding teacher. He is not alien to doubts, and fatigue, and dissatisfaction with the results of his own efforts.
Melnikov, like all of us, can be wrong. But he fights, looks for the right answer, loves, overcomes difficulties and doubts. This is perhaps one of the best films of the Soviet period dedicated to the school.
Here, the complexities of growing up, the nuances of the relationship of students with each other and with adults are revealed as accurately as possible. The picture also shows how important it is for every person to meet a real Teacher in life…
9. October sky | 1999
An autumn day in 1957 was a turning point in the biography of a boy from the small town of Colwood. Homer Hickam was born into the family of a simple miner, and until some point his life was very ordinary.
The news of the launch of the world’s first satellite aroused in the boy a great interest in everything related to space exploration. Now creating his own rocket has become a fixed idea for him: the teenager began to collect the necessary data and prepare the place for his greatest invention …
8. Freedom Writers | 2006
This is a story about the difficult everyday life of an English teacher working in a school in the California town of Long Beach. Her students are almost entirely children for whom English is by no means their native language. Among other things, a fairly criminogenic situation reigns in …
7. Semi-Nelson | 2006
Young teacher Dan Dunn lives a double life. During the day, he conscientiously engages in teaching activities, using the most modern methods, leads a sports club and very quickly finds a common language with students. And in the evening – he turns into a drug addict, unable to resist addiction.
Dan could continue to combine these two opposing lifestyles, but the money issue is very acute: each new dose consumes a significant part of his personal funds. The quality of drugs is getting worse every time, and this also has its consequences.
During another breakdown, Dan is found in the school toilet by one of the students – Dray. This girl managed to see and experience a lot of negativity in her life: the separation of her parents, her constantly working mother, her brother’s criminal tendencies and his subsequent arrest. Dray is shy and withdrawn, but she immediately understands what is the reason for the plight of teacher Dunn.
Between these completely different at first glance, the heroes are struck up a friendship that can help each of them in making the right life decisions.
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François and the other teachers prepare to celebrate the New Year at a school in a troubled area. He is not arrogant and not very strict, his extravagant frankness sometimes simply plunges students into shock. But his teaching skills are put to the test when his students begin to question his teaching methods.
5. Renaissance Man | 1994
Bill Rago is an ordinary advertising agent who lost his job. The employment service offered him a temporary job as an English language and literature teacher at a military base where the military is trained.
Having no opportunity to find a job on his own, Bill agrees to this offer, but does so without much enthusiasm.
Even less interest in learning is shown by his students – young and illiterate recruits. The greatest playwright of all times and peoples, William Shakespeare, helps Bill to build relationships with students …
4. Good Will Hunting | 1997
The protagonist of the picture is not rich, so he lives in a small apartment on the outskirts of Boston. He is only twenty years old and his name is Will Hunting. He works as a janitor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
His life is work and endless parties with friends, accompanied by drinking a lot of alcohol and fighting. However, there is an unusual gift in this young man: he is endowed by nature with a brilliant intellect and a phenomenal memory. But he does not betray his abilities to others.
But one day at the university where the main character works, an incident occurs, after which he reveals his outstanding abilities to the whole world …
3. Replacement teacher | 2011
Henry Barth is a school teacher who, for some reason, replaces temporarily absent teachers. He constantly moves from one educational institution to another.
He himself says that he chose such a job, only in order not to bear great responsibility, because no one expects great achievements from a temporary teacher, his task is to ensure discipline in the class and make sure that students do not kill each other during classes.
Although in fact the main character is a talented teacher, a noble person, however, he is very afraid of becoming attached to his students.
2. Big change | 1972
Nestor Severov is an ambitious literalist who has decided that a place in graduate school is practically in his pocket. And this is quite justified, because he is an excellent student and even the teachers of the university where he studies history are amazed at his talent.
One day, leaving his books for a while, he meets a beautiful girl, Polina. Love flares up between them and they decide to get married in a short time. But just before the wedding, it turns out that Nestor’s beloved also claims the coveted place in graduate school, and to the surprise of him and the examination committee, she manages to bypass the self-confident groom.
Unable to withstand such a blow of fate, Severov decides to radically change his life – to part with Polina and go to teach history at an evening school …
1. Dead Poets Society | 1989
John Keating is a new teacher of English and Literature at a conservative American college. From the snobbery of teachers working in this institution, it favorably distinguishes the ease of communication, unusual behavior and original pedagogical methods.
One day, he initiates his wards into the secret of the Dead Poets Society. From that day on, each of his students begins to try to stand out in a gray and faceless mass, to look at the world around them from the other side, jumping high above the high school fence.