Good films about the profession of a teacher are actually nothing more than stories about people who know how to understand and support the student in all his aspirations, and also help to reveal the potential inherent in him.
The work of teachers is difficult to overestimate. Their contribution to the development of not only individuals, but also the whole people, is enormous. That is why their activities have repeatedly become the object of interest of filmmakers.
Presenting the 10 best films about teachers.
10. Let's live until Monday | 1968
History teacher Melnikov, performed by unsurpassed Vyacheslav Tikhonov, a thoughtful, serious, strict and demanding teacher. He is not alien to doubts, and fatigue, and dissatisfaction with the results of their own efforts.
Melnikov, like all of us, may be wrong. But he fights, seeks the correct answer, loves, overcomes difficulties and doubts.
This is perhaps one of the best films of the Soviet period devoted to school.
Here, the difficulties of growing up, the nuances of the relationship of students between themselves and with adults, are revealed as accurately as possible. The picture also shows how important it is for each person to meet in the life of a real Teacher ...
9. October sky | 1999
Autumn day 1957 was a turning point in the biography of a boy from the small town of Colwood. Homer Hickam was born in the family of a simple miner, and until some point his life was very ordinary.
The news about the launch of the world's first satellite aroused great interest in everything related to space exploration in the boy. Now the creation of his own rocket became a fix idea for him: a teenager began to collect the necessary data and prepare a place for his greatest invention ...
8. Writers of freedom | 2006
This is a story about the difficult everyday life of an English teacher working in one of the schools in the California town of Long Beach. Her students are almost entirely children for whom English is by no means a native language. Among other things, the situation is rather criminal ...
7. Semi-Nelson | 2006
Young teacher Dan Dunn lives a double life. In the afternoon, he faithfully engages in teaching, using the most modern techniques, leads a sports club and very quickly finds a common language with his students. And in the evening - he turns into a drug addict, unable to resist the addiction.
Dan could continue to combine these two opposing lifestyles, but the money issue is very acute: each new dose absorbs a significant part of his personal funds. The quality of drugs is getting worse every time, and this also has its consequences.
During the next breaking of Dan in the school toilet, one of the students - Drey - catches up. This girl in her life managed to see and experience a lot of negativity: the separation of parents, a constantly working mother, the criminal inclinations of her brother and his subsequent arrest. Dray is shy and introverted, but she immediately understands what is the reason for the serious condition of teacher Dunn.
Friendship is struck between these completely different at first glance heroes, which can help each of them in making the right life decisions.
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Francois and other teachers are preparing to celebrate the New Year at school in a disadvantaged area. He is not arrogant and not very strict, his extravagant frankness sometimes simply throws students into shock. But his pedagogical qualifications are tested when his students begin to doubt his teaching methods.
5. Renaissance man | 1994
Bill Rego is an ordinary advertising agent who lost his job. In the employment service, he was offered to temporarily take a vacancy of an English and literature teacher at a military base where the military is trained.
Having no opportunity to find a job on his own, Bill agrees to this offer, but makes it proceeded without much enthusiasm.
His pupils, young and illiterate recruits, show even less interest in studying. To establish relations with his students, Bill is helped by the greatest playwright of all time - William Shakespeare ...
4. Clever Will Hunting | 1997
The main character of the picture is not rich, so he lives in a small apartment on the outskirts of Boston. He is only twenty years old and his name is Will Hunting. He works as a janitor at the Massachusetts University of Technology.
His life is work and endless hangouts with friends, accompanied by drinking a lot of alcohol and fights. However, this young man has an unusual gift: he is gifted by nature with brilliant intellect and phenomenal memory.
But he does not betray his abilities to others.
But once at the university where the protagonist works, an event occurs, after which he reveals his outstanding abilities to the whole world ...
3. Replacement teacher | 2011
Henry Bart is a school teacher who replaces temporarily absent teachers for some reason. He is constantly moving from one educational institution to another.
He himself says that he chose such a job, only in order not to bear great responsibility, because no one expects great achievements from a temporary teacher, his task is to ensure discipline in the classroom and to ensure that students do not kill each other during classes.
Although in reality the main character is a talented teacher, a noble man, he is very afraid to become attached to his students.
2. Big change | 1972
Nestor Severov is an ambitious bookworm who has decided that he has a place in graduate school in his pocket. And this is fully justified, because he is an excellent pupil and even university teachers, where he studies history, are amazed at his talent.
Once having left books for a short while, he meets a beautiful girl Polina. Love breaks out between them and in a short time they decide to get married. But before the wedding itself it turns out that Nestor’s beloved also claims to be a coveted place in graduate school, and to the surprise of himself and the examination committee, she manages to get around the self-confident groom.
Unable to withstand such a blow of fate, Severov decides to radically change his life - to part with Polina and go to teach history at evening school ...
1. The Society of Dead Poets | 1989
John Keating is a new teacher of English and literature at a conservative American college. From the snobbery of teachers working in this institution, it is distinguished by the ease of communication, unusual behavior and original pedagogical methods.
Once he devotes his charges to the secret of the Society of Dead Poets. From this day on, each of his students begins to try to stand out in a gray and faceless mass, to look at the world around him from the other side, jumping high above a high school fence.