Lessons of a Dream

“Hip hip hooray boys!”

Konrad Koch (Daniel Brühl) wants his students in Braunschweig to learn English, and he knows reciting vocabulary has never reached them. So he brings in football, a game unknown in the German Empire, and puts a ball at the feet of boys used to sitting still. Sebastian Grobler follows Koch as his liberal methods unsettle the older teachers, the parents and local dignitaries, and he keeps teaching his way anyway.