The Privilege (German: Das Privileg) is a 2022 German film directed by Felix Fuchssteiner and Katharina Schöde, written by Felix Fuchssteiner, Sebastian Niemann, Katharina Schöde and Eckhard Vollmar and starring Max Schimmelpfennig, Lise Risom Olsen and Caroline Hartig. It was released by Netflix on February 9, 2022.
A wealthy teen and his friends attending an elite private school uncover a dark conspiracy while looking into a series of strange supernatural events.
German Netflix film The Privilege (Das Privileg) is a romantic teen drama supernatural horror paranoid conspiracy thriller, and if that sounds like quite a handful of movie, you’d be right on. It might also be a comedy, although I don’t think that’s intentional, which may be a good thing, or not. Let’s investigate further, shall we?
The Gist: Finn survived a hell of a thing when he was a kid: His teenage sister went crazy and tried to take him with her when she hurled herself off a bridge. Several years go by, and Finn (Max Schimmelpfennig) is a high-schooler dealing with the psychological fallout of the incident. He undergoes a bunch of medical stress tests and the like, and the doc tells him that the trauma damaged his brain, so here, take this medication. Maybe all this is why he’s kind of quiet and brooding, an outcast at school. But he has a bestie, Lena (Lea van Acken), and that cute girl Samira (Tijan Marei) over there can’t stop smiling at him, flipping her hair in slow motion, like, hello there, Vidal SassOON.
Finn only has six months until graduation, and we know this because Lena says to him, “Can you believe we only have six months until graduation?”, which is a dumb thing to say, because of course he knows there’s only six months until graduation, but I guess WE didn’t know there’s only six months until graduation. Cut to biology class, where Finn and Lena listen to a lecture about that crazy fungus that takes over ants’ brains and grows out the tops of their heads and turns them into zombies, which surely has no bearing on the movie plot, none whatsoever I bet, so let’s just keep watching and only remember this scene if we need to later on, OK?