Official submission of Germany for the 'Best International Feature Film' category of the 96th Academy Awards in 2024.
Eva Löbau, the "opponent" of the teacher in this movie, played a teacher herself in the also great movie Der Wald vor lauter Bäumen (2003), which covers a similar topic.
The Teachers' Lounge (2023) was nominated for Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards, but lost to The Zone of Interest (2023). Leonie Benesch who stars as Carla Nowak in The Teacher's Lounge and Christian Friedel who stars as Commandant Rudolf Höss in The Zone of Interest played a couple in Michael Haneke's Das weiße Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte (2009).