The Kindergarten Teacher
2014 · Movie · Not Rated · 120 min · ★ 5.9 · 73% critics
A kindergarten teacher becomes captivated by a young child’s remarkable gift for poetry and starts taking increasingly bold steps to nurture it. As her fascination grows, her efforts to shield the talent from an indifferent world begin to blur boundaries and strain the lives around her.
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Details
- Original title
- Haganenet
- Years
- 2014
- Release date
- 2014-09-10
- Language
- English
- Rated
- Not Rated
- Runtime
- 120 min
- Critic score
- 73/100
- TMDB rating
- 5.9/10 (33 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a tense, unsettling character study about art, obsession, and blurred boundaries, similar to The Kindergarten Teacher (2018); Not for you if you need fast pacing, clear heroes, or comfortable subject matter.
Pros: unsettling moral tension; thought-provoking themes; memorable poetic moments | Cons: slow pacing; uncomfortable behavior; emotionally distant tone
Cast & crew
- SL
Sarit Larry
as Nira
- AS
Avi Shnaidman
as Yoav Pollak
Lior Raz
as Nira's husband
- GD
Gilad ben David
as The Poetry Teacher
- ER
Ester Rada
as Miri
- GO
Guy Oren
as Asi
Yehezkel Lazarov
as Amnon Pollak
- DT
Dan Toren
as Aharon Pollak
Directed by Nadav Lapid