Robert

Story

Synopsis

Miss Giehse, an elderly teacher in a boarding school, tries with a lot of good will for her student Robert. The boy seems strangely withdrawn and depressed to her. Robert, whose behavior can be traced back to his parental home, which lacks orderly family relationships, disrupts the lessons with his defiant and rebellious behavior. All her attempts to investigate the causes of this behavior, however, only lead to increasingly serious misunderstandings. In almost hysterical exaggeration, provoked by Robert's tormenting behavior, she finally believes that he is trying to poison her and knocks the boy down during a break. The principal of the boarding school inadvertently witnesses this incident and dismisses Miss Giehse after a heated controversy. The teacher does not overcome the shame of the dismissal and the pain of her own actions and dies on the day she has to leave the boarding school on a trip with the school bus.

Director

Peter Lilienthal

Writers

Peter Schneider, Peter Lilienthal, Stanley Ellin

Language

German

Country

Germany

Release date

1 January 1966

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Else Quecke

  Fräulein Giehse

• Thomas Rosengarten

  Robert

• Peter Hirche

  Dr. Kovall

• Renate Gerhardt

  Roberts Mutter

• Ladislaus Somogyi

  Roberts Vater

• Martin Rosen

  Chauffeur

• Nina von Porembsky

  Fräulein Zuriel

• Walter Hasenclever

  1. Lehrer

• Julius Tinzmann

  2. Lehrer

• Charlotte Kolle

  Haushälterin

• Alexander Koval

  Gärtner

• Michael Schneider

  Magier