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System Crasher

Movie
2019
1h 58m
German
Drama
Wherever 9-year-old Benni ends up, she is expelled. She has become what child protection services call a “system crasher.” But she is not looking to change her ways, and has one goal: go back home to her mother. When anger management trainer Micha is hired to help, suddenly there is hope.
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Albrecht Schuch
Michael Heller
Maryam Zaree
Elli Heller
Melanie Straub
Dr. Schönemann
Matthias Brenner
Erzieher Wolfgang
Tedros Teclebrhan
Erzieher Robert
Gisa Flake
Lehrerin
Axel Werner
Bauer Bockelmann
Imke Bchel
Frau Herzog
Jana Julia Roth
Erzieherin Saskia
Peter Schneider
Erzieher Fabio
Barbara Philipp
Heimleiterin Redekamp
Hanife Sylejmani
Verkäuferin
Steffi Khnert
Nette Autofahrerin
Brbel Schwarz
Imbissverkäuferin
Till Butterbach
Krankenpfleger Peter
Julia Becker
Junge Krankenschwester
Bruno Thiel
Leo Klaaß
Ida Goetzev
Alicia Klaaß
Gennaro Trama
Junge mit Cap
Directed By: Nora Fingscheidt
Written By: Nora Fingscheidt

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thoroughmas says...
5 years ago
This is a "full-body" movie. Get ready to be affected from head to toe.
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Saint Pauly says...
4 years ago
Watching _Systemsprenger_ / _System Crasher_ is like watching a monkey play with a box of live hand grenades in a maternity ward. You know what's going to happen, it's just a question of time. _System Crasher_ is aptly named because 1) it's about an 8-year-old girl with trauma who acts out so violently the German health care network has no place for her and 2) we, the viewer, hate her for her behavior yet can't hate her because of the abuse that caused it so our own systems crash. The film's not an easy watch, but that's because it's so well made and because the child actor Helena Zengel is a tour de force in the role of Benni. The biggest misstep is that _System Crasher_ starts out at an intensity of 11, so it has nowhere to go but straight, which, tragically, flattens the narrative arc.
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kobec says...
12 months ago
I watched this the first time at Film Fest Ghent in 2019. This movie is extremely emotionally intense so be prepared! Performances were amazing, especially Helena Zengel. This movie always stayed in my thoughts as well, highly recommend.
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Artie-Cygi says...
2 years ago
This movie was recommended by my psychopathology professor when we studied Oppositional defiant disorder to observe the case and how difficult it was to watch the pain of Benni and everyone around her. This film invites us to be in her shoes, a child who has been through so much, who still wants her mother's love and care, who has no control over her own destiny within the system. Putting ourselves in the shoes of the mother who doesn't feel she has the means and resources to deal with her daughter's difficult case and in place of the workers of the system who dedicate their lives to helping these children, who suffer with the difficulties of their work and with purely human pains and whom I admire infinitely. It is difficult, raw, painful to watch how difficult, raw and painful it is to know that cases like this exist in real life and that the system, despite the efforts of its workers, is not prepared to deal with it.
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Featured User Reviews

FrontrunnerParis
3 years ago
Impossible to emerge unscathed from this movie, a moment often unbearable. How could you have made a little girl play that? Overwhelming.
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