The Substitute (2007 film)

• Paprika Steen: Ulla Harms
• Ulrich Thomsen: Jesper Osböll
• Jonas wall Schneider: Carl Osböll
• Sonja Richter: Maria
• Henrik Prip: Claus
• Holger Juul Hansen: narrator

Alien Teacher is a Danish youth - horror film from the year 2007.

Action

One day, an alien lands, which comes from a planet that knows only war, but no love on earth to get the love of the people and to transfer to the home planet. It lands on Jens Peter Hansen's poultry farm, where it is not only the body of the wife Hansen accepts, but also takes along some chickens. A few days later, the alien appears under the name of Ulla Harms as a substitute teacher of Carl's class, where she is mean and rude to all students. She plans to gain an education competition, which will be rewarded with a trip to Paris. Accordingly, it demands excellence and has increasingly pointed out that man is a special species, since he is able to love.

But the students are very skeptical because of the methods Harms and wonder how a teacher can behave so badly towards their students. When they tell their parents about it, they do not believe them. Rather, they have to listen to a lecture by the school psychologist Claus, in which he skips over the wild imagination of children and thinks that you need them to believe anything. Meanwhile, Carl uses the distraction to search Ullas things. He finds it more documents that he can not explain. After Philips father shall make these documents nonsense, he inaugurates the class, then it Ullas residence tracks down and breaks with her. While Ulla comes home, the class searches the ghostly home Ulla and discovered a small chicken farm in one of the rooms. As they hide from Ulla, they see how these brutally mauled a chicken with his bare hands and eats.

Of course, the students tell the parents why they decided to do with their children on the road to Ullapool. Once there, however, they need to realize that this has made ​​her home suddenly pleasant and jovial, joking with the rumors that she was a monster around. Therefore, the parents no longer believe their own children. Also, now that the upcoming trip to Paris with Ulla in the children no joy, but panic triggers, they can not understand. They defend themselves violently against the journey with Ulla and have to be dragged by force literally in the school bus.

But after all they are on the bus, they take their trip, with the first stop the chicken farm Hansen is where Ulla intends to bring the children on their own home planet. During the night after Ulla has prepared the van, all the students to flee by bus. But she did not get very far because they are stopped by Ulla. Ulla travels with them back through time and again they keep their stopover on Hansen's chicken farm, where they immediately all locked up in the chicken farm and prepared the transport. However, Carl was not there, so he can move freely and Ulla's metal ball snaps and destroys it with the chopper, which also Ulla is defeated.

Criticism

" The decorated in dark colors fantasy film uses set pieces of horror films in children USEFULLY form to tell with good performers from the power of love. This helps even over blows and points the way out of the crisis. "

" " Night Watch "director Ole Bornedal went here on the traces of B-movies in which especially memories of Robert Rodriguez's " The Faculty " or" The Body Snatchers " wake up. He is, however, less seriously and satirizing the science fiction genre skillfully with a wild roller coaster ride, which you hardly even aware that it does not come from Hollywood. Paprika Steen shines in the role of the Upper nasty teacher " from Outer Space ," which will explore the human soul. Any similarities to real teachers are probably purely coincidental - but certainly intends ".

Awards

• An award ( Best Cinematography ) and a nomination ( Best Actress ) at the Danish Film Award Bodil
• Ten nominations at the Danish Film Award Robert ( Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Children's Film, Best Editing, Best Costume Design, Best Makeup, Best Production Design, Best Sound, Best Special Effects )
• An award at the Zulu Awards for Best Leading Actress

Publication

Alien Teacher launched on 15 June 2007 in the Danish cinemas and ran in Germany on 14 August 2008. Since 20 November 2008, the film on DVD is available.