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All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Uri Roodner
Uri Roodner appears in Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life, the film adaptation of the book by Robert Walser Jakob von Gunten, first published in 1909.
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Jakob von Gunten
Robert Walser, 1909
movie vs book
Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay, Weiser Quay, 1995
Jakob is a young man who enters a school, run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta, which trains servants. The teachers emphasize to the students that they are unimportant people. Jakob finds the school to be an oppressive environment, and does not enjoy the lessons in subservience that he receives. He proceeds to challenge the Benjamentas and attempts to shift their perspectives.