WATCHLIST: The Gradaute

In the organizer's words:

With WATCHLIST, Filmfest Aachen presents a hand-picked film every month. Personal favorites of the festival team, groundbreaking works of film history and modern masterpieces find their way back into the cinema - from your watchlist to the big screen.

Mike Nichols / 1967 / OV / FSK 12 / 105'

"The Graduate" is a movie that feels like coming home. It tells of the unease that comes knocking at the door with the seriousness of life - embodied by Benjamin (Dustin Hoffmann), who drifts around laconically and aimlessly after graduating from college, waiting for something, finally plunging into foolish (and very entertaining!) adventures with married women. Unaware that Mrs. Robinson can't save him either, he flees forward. No other movie combines melancholy and humor with such ease and is able to look straight into my soul even 60 years after its release (Milena, FFA Team).

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With WATCHLIST, Filmfest Aachen presents a hand-picked film every month. Personal favorites of the festival team, groundbreaking works of film history and modern masterpieces find their way back into the cinema - from your watchlist to the big screen.

"The Graduate" is a movie that feels like coming home. It tells of the unease that comes knocking at the door with the seriousness of life - embodied by Benjamin (Dustin Hoffmann), who drifts around laconically and aimlessly after graduating from college, waiting for something, finally plunging into foolish (and very entertaining!) adventures with married women. Unaware that Mrs. Robinson can't save him either, he flees forward. No other film combines melancholy and humor with such ease and is able to look straight into my soul even 60 years after its release (Milena, FFA Team).