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Rebels with no cause

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Rebels With No Cause

   Europeans who feel they are living
in a post-idealist world. They want
something to believe in, to fight for
- they’re just not sure what that is,
and their struggle leaves them
feeling lost.
    At times action-packed, at
others humorous, the film follows
ANGST ANEW: A refreshing viewthe trio to a climax at a secluded
of depressed Germans ponderingmountainside retreat, where they
lifehave ended up with a hostage -
businessman Herr Hardenberg -
    AN UPPER-CLASS GERMANafter a botched break-in at his
family arrives home fromhouse. The three begin to connect
vacation to find life notwith their captive, and in turn,
quite as they left it: their furniturelearn about themselves. A former
has been piled up in the middle ofidealist who once hoped to change
one room, their porcelain soldierthe world himself, Hardenberg
collection has been dumped in thegives them a preview of their
bidet and the stereo is tuckedfuture. “You hardly notice,” he
neatly on the shelf - of theexplains, “then one day, to your
refrigerator. A note left by thesurprise, at the polls you vote
intruders, who have stolenconservative.” Thanks to
nothing, reads, “Your Days ofWeingarten’s crisp editing, the
Plenty are Numbered.” So beginssharp textured cinematography
German director Hansand his development of the
Weingarten’s new film, “Theprincipal characters, you’ll leave
Edukators,” a tale of three“The Edukators” feeling much like
disillusioned twenty-somethingthe youths do when they leave the
Berliners who rebel against thosemountain - as if you’ve never
evils of modern society -contemplated the bitter truth of
capitalism, globalization andreality before.
yuppies. Through the personalities 
of Peter, his girlfriend Jule, andGINANNE BROWNELL
Jan, Weingarten captures the 
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