Easter Monday is a holiday, too, in most European countries and therefore counts as part of the box office weekend. But despite the additional day, there was hardly any change in ranking as well as ticket sales.

Phantastische Tierwesen 3: Dumbledores Geheimnisse (Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore) stayed on top, with Sonic the Hedgehog 2 close behind just like last week. The number three is the only huge shake-up in Germany: Eingeschlossene Gesellschaft which loosely translates to Enclosed Society, a German satire in which a father forces six teachers to give his son better grades debuted at number three.

This film, although it has darkly comedic overtones, is really a drama: on a Friday afternoon, six teachers who have not yet left for the weekend, hear a knock on the conference room door. A student’s father (Thorsten Merten) storms in, carrying a gun and threatening to keep them hostage until and unless they change his son’s grade so he can graduate. The teachers resemble the usual cross-section. The older female, hardened by life and worn-out by decades of unwilling students is played by Anke Engelke, a departure acting-wise for the popular comedienne and talk show host. Florian David Fitz portrays Peter Mertens, the cynical but beloved P.E. instructor, Thomas Loibl is the administrative dean of the student body, Torben Kessler the nerdy math teacher, Justus von Dohnanyi the strictest and most conservative, and Nilam Farooq, the young apprentice teacher. All of them should have left the school already and happen to still be there by sheer bad luck. Now they are locked in and what transpires during the next few hours exposes the shortcomings of the German education system as well as embarrassing details about their own lives.

The film is based on a podcast – a first for a German production. Jan Weiler, the creator also wrote the screenplay for Söhnke Wortmann, one of Germany’s most successful directors. In the arthouse charts, Wortmann’s last film Contra stayed at number one for a full month, so it is no surprise that his latest work debuted right there, too.

There is not much shake-up in the rest of the charts with The Batman coming in fourth – the Matt Reeves directed film broke the $ 750 million mark worldwide this past week, followed by Morbius, Die Gangster Gang, Die Häschenschule – Jagd nach dem Goldenen Ei, Uncharted, Ambulance and Wunderschön.

And there was literally no change at all in Austria’s Top Ten: the documentary Rotzbub – Willkommen in Siegheilkirchen stayed in first place in its fourth week of release, followed by The Batman, Die Gangster Gang, Uncharted, Die Häschenschule – Der Grosse Eierklau, Ambulance, Jackass Forever, Bergen, Der Wolf und der Löwe and Küss mich, Mistkerl! (The Hating Game).

This lack of change in both countries can be attributed to the Easter weekend: while the Christmas holiday is notoriously a time for big new releases and the last eligible award contenders of the year, no one really wants to premiere a film on Easter – which makes Söhnke Wortmann’s debut in Germany all the more surprising since it seems to be the exception to the rule. The season has something to do with it, for sure. Better weather is always a movie deterrent. What is surprising though, is the fact that despite the longer holiday weekend, the revenue did not go up, either.