Here is heaven on earth must be. In reality, many students here suffered hell on earth. They were sexually abused by their teachers. The flagship boarding the progressive education had been “a nest of pedophiles who have given the jack in the hand” according to a balance of a lawyer. The ARD is the topic for the first time in a TV movie.
“The chosen ones” are this Wednesday (October 1) in prime time at 20.15 clock to see. A film with a lot of depth null and voyeurism – filmed at the Odenwald School, the scene of the crime. “We face the past,” said spokeswoman Gertrud Ohling-hooks. “We do everything that contributes to prevention.”
On the weekend before the broadcast date, there were protests by two former students were threatening legal action. The WDR rejected this, the criticism is unfounded. One of the two former pupil is eager for information from his lawyer to financial compensation. He was readily discernible in one of the actors as victims and become injured in his personal rights
Sexual Abuse:. Between the 1960s and 1990s, there were attacks on at least 132 students. In the idyll of rural-lovely houses where teachers and students lived together and showered together. There were more than a dozen pedophiles. Main culprit was the headmaster Gerold Becker, who died in 2010, respected and revered for his education. But according to a final report on the abuse he was a “champion of the nebulization strategy”. Highly cooked properly are the assaults after a long silence until 2010, the 100th anniversary of the Odenwald School.
in the film. Director Christoph Röhl rejects him about what really happened. He worked from 1989 to 1991 as an English tutor at the school and has already been submitted to the sexual assaults the documentary “And we are not alone”. In “The Chosen” plays Ulrich Tukur (“drum”, “The White Ribbon”, “Stauffenberg”), the main role. The figure of the charismatic and famous headmaster Simon Pistorius is based on Becker.
The film is the beginning of the 1980s a. A new biology teacher comes. Petra Grust (Julia Jentsch / “Sophie Scholl – The Final Days”, “Hannah Arendt”, “Effi Briest”) is irritated by loose boarding school everyday. Young students smoke and drink alcohol, it is showered together, a teacher has an affair with an underage student. Grust is aware of the 13-year-old Frank. He looks distraught, obviously has problems and even undertakes a suicide attempt. Frank is a victim of Pistorius, his father does not believe him.
But can tear down the wall of silence, the teacher not. You must even go. Headmaster Pistorius (“This is the only pure, true love”), the teacher either on his side or can they deceive, has contacts in higher circles. The film traces the perpetrators structure as perpetrators are covered gradually.
“The elect” implies sexual abuse only. So Pistorius comes out of the shower, Frank crouches still there under the shower. His sacrifice he threatens: “Look, you little shit. Otherwise, I’ll tell everyone what you do to me. “
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It was not until years later, during the celebration of the 100th anniversary, Frank bursts after suicide a former classmate as a man between, forces a talk about the abuse.
Even in 2014, four years after the real news of the sexual abuse, the Odenwald school has not yet come to rest. The private boarding school students are missing and thus revenue. Property must be sold to raise money. Supervisory authorities have laid down conditions, according to the Ministry of Social Affairs approval is limited only once a year. The Odenwald school does not keep her past but under the covers.
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