A Slovakian movie with a Czech director. I thought it would be more anti-Communist than it was. A teacher, a Communist Party member, uses her position to force students and their parents to do favors for her. She makes kids clean her apartment, tries to get an accountant working at the airport to get an airline pilot to deliver a cake to her sister in the Soviet Union, tries to get another father to fix her washing machine. There was no legitimate way to get rich in a Communist country which put a limit on corruption. We just had a local school district employee sentenced for embezzling tens of thousands of dollars.
Most of it is told in flashback when the school has a meeting with parents to discuss the situation and do something about it. She starts her first class by learning students' named and what their parents do for a living.
A kid brings a gun to school, another kid is physically abused by his father, the kids become defiant when they're treated unfairly. They were just like us!
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