System Crasher | Clip

Director: Nora Fingscheidt
Language: German

A wrenching tale of a foster child pushing a system to its limits, System Crasher picked up the Alfred Bauer Prize at the Berlinale.

[sacmom]

This has become one of my favorite movies. It’s just a great film.

[elfsieben]

"Systemsprenger" ("System Crasher") is one of my favourite movies this year.

It has a systemic perspective similar to "The Favourite" (another great movie!) but not its biting sarcasm, and it also has much empathy/sympathy for an offensive central character such as "Joker" (another feast for any cineast!) but without the stylistic connivance.

All these movies are very interesting in shedding light on the dynamics and relationships between power structures, feelings and situations of helplessness, and the emergence of violence.

The cinema of 2019 has been offering much in the way of emotionally gripping, intelligent, courageous, sensitive, suspenseful, stylish, entertaining and multi-faceted films from that field.

"Systemsprenger" may be cinematically less unconventional or excentric, but the cinematography, editing and script are spot-on, characterisation and cast are beautiful, the chemistry and dynamics between the leading duo are amazing and could carry the story even if other aspects were less perfect than they really are.

Helena Zengel and Albrecht Schuch are my acting revelations of the year.

Author/director Nora Fingscheidt put a lot of research and sensibility into this project.

Big time cinema!

[GiantPetRat]

Anybody- literally ANYbody- who is interested in adopting an "older child", please, please watch this movie. It shows that a person with trauma can be loved, protected, and guided... but sometimes, circumstances are simply such that the child can't be fully reached. As foster parents, they need to realize that they're coming into a situation which is already massively complex; when things don't go the way you wanted, sometimes it isn't really anyone's fault- not the child's, nor any of the caregivers.

[oldproji]

Helena is on the way to stardom. Her rise will be meteoric, you mark m words.

[doomer]

1:40 The girl should be lucky, that she didn't do the pencil trick.

[peterfromgermany]

System Crasher was soooo good with her!

[ConradHeiligCover]

Hätte nicht die Lehrerin dem anderen Mädchen eine Grenze setzen müssen? Stattdessen hat es dann Benny für sie übernommen. Auf ihre Weise.

[billieisbest]

No but that thingy she had on her head must hurt like hell

[aalis]

lovely, little girl you remind me by the people of new york city and the difference is you are an original. What that's mean being an original German little girl mean many things quite, polite, and kind that's for your soul while for your health doesn't consume lots of fat, doesn't wear any thing and doesn't paint here face with lots of things nor her hair colour would change continuously. Also she may not wear sun glasses unless outdoor while she is not talking to someone, this maybe hard to understand. It means she takes off her sun glasses if she is talking to someone. I spent eighteen months to find such original product but I couldn't find it, we still have time to buy the product of helena at any time. thanks, despite of the fact that money is important to buy a product, the other fact is space also important to keep it inside.