“The Nazis sucked – we get it.” So sigh the high-school kids in this cautionary German riff on the allure of fascism. Despite being sick to death of Adolf popping up in history class like an embarrassing old relly who won’t quit crashing their parties, they still plump for the ‘Autocracy’ option in Project Week. Why? Because it’s taught by hip, unorthodox, Ramones T-shirt-wearing Rainer Wenger (Jürgen Vogel). Bummed he didn’t get assigned ‘Anarchy’, he decides to shake things up with a role-playing experiment that transforms the class into a small-scale dictatorship. Only Wenger doesn’t foresee just how immersed he and his pupils will get in such a dangerous ‘game’…
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