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Lesson Learned (2024)
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Original name: Fekete pont
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Ten-year-old Palkó has just moved home to Budapest from Berlin and observes the daily life of an ordinary Hungarian elementary school with confused amazement. Juci, the young teacher just started working there. She is the only one who understands Palkó, as in their own way, they are both suffering from the same, sometimes grotesque educational system.
Style:
intercultural, grotesque
Plot:
coming of age, elementary school, child protagonist, oppression, empathy, new student, isolation, alienation, bureaucracy, realism, bullying, class struggle, language barrier, resilience, friendship, satire
Time:
2020s
Place:
budapest, hungary
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Story:
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Story:
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