A precious opportunity to reflect on key issues of school and society

Abstract

Defining the film Das Lehrerzimmer as dense for the multiplicity and problematic nature of the themes it touches upon does not seem out of place at all. The film, as the title suggests, concerns what can happen in a school context, but the story and the events that are seen unfolding on the screen can also be interpreted as a metaphor for what happens outside of that context, that is, in German society, in whose country the film was made, but also in other European and non-European nations, at least the richest and considered to be advanced, in which the phenomenon of immigration, among other factors that are not at all easy to govern, has created complex and conflictual dynamics.