It puts you right back in that palace tea-room warmth like the series never ended, which is exactly the drug you came for. Heine Wittgenstein is still the smallest, sharpest person in any room, still handing out "educational guidance" to four princes who each need a completely different flavor of it: Kai's silence, Bruno's overachieving panic, Leonhard's allergy to studying, Licht's charm-offensive deflection. Then Romano's twins show up looking like plush toys and behaving like tiny sadists, and the fun is watching Heine treat that as a teaching problem instead of a threat. Be honest with yourself going in: this is a very long, very lovely episode rather than a movie with real stakes, and the plot gets stretched thin over the runtime. Nobody watching this cares. You're here because these five make you feel better about your own week, and ninety minutes of that is a bargain.

Heine Wittgenstein has his hands full as the royal tutor to four competitive princes of Granzreich, Kai, Bruno, Leonhard and Licht, each vying to prove himself worthy of the crown. When the king of neighboring Romano arrives on a political visit, he brings his twin sons, Ivan and Eugene. The twins look adorable, but they turn out to be deeply sadistic, and they snub the four as princes who will never take the throne. At King Victor's request, Heine agrees to tutor the visitors alongside his own students, and he and the four princes decide the twins need a lesson of their own. The film is a lighthearted comedy with a slice of life feel.