Great movie about teaching

Rating: 9/10 (14 January 2012)

This is a lovely film about a teacher's career and dreams that never get fulfilled. In the beginning he has to take a teaching job in a high school, with hopes to earn enough to later concentrate on his true love in life, composing.
This dream never comes true as the four years that he's planning to teach become thirty years. The magnificent classical piece heard during the opening credits, the grand opus he's dreaming one day to compose, never becomes reality; instead, at the end of the film we hear a considerably different, "inferior" piece as a deliberate contrast, but in the end it doesn't matter to him - he has found his true fulfillment in life in inspiring his students to love music, within the confines of the high school world.
One point off for the length, but otherwise highly recommended and heartwarming, tastefully directed movie.