Maren Hilbert is the new teacher at the private elite school Sophienbund. She soon realizes that the school, which looks so perfect on the outside, is in a pretty bad state on the inside. When a killing spree is announced, Maren knows she has to act. But neither the principal nor her colleagues take the threatening emails or Maren seriously, only police officer Niklas Götz (39), the father of one of her pupils, supports her in her research. Maren is certain: the potential killer is a boy from her class and he is serious. A race against time begins.
Acting
Anja Kling carries every scene of justified paranoia nobody believes.
Direction
Dommenget wrings genuine dread from fluorescent-lit hallways and email pings.
Director
Oliver Dommenget
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released four years after Erfurt and two before Winnenden, this TV movie channels Germany's real reckoning with school violence.
Anja Kling reportedly took the role specifically because the script refused to make Maren hysterical — her calm certainty is the point.
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