The Silent Revolution (2018 film)
The Silent Revolution | |
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German | Das schweigende Klassenzimmer |
Literally | The Silent Classroom |
Directed by | Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen |
Distributed by | StudioCanal[3] |
Release dates |
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Running time | 1 hour 51 minutes |
Country | Germany |
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Box office | US$1,264,193[4][5] |
The Silent Revolution (German: Das schweigende Klassenzimmer, lit. 'The Silent Classroom') is a 2018 German historical drama film written and directed by Lars Kraume. The film depicts the true story of a high school class in the German Democratic Republic, who have a moment of silence for the victims of the failed Hungarian Revolution of 1956, and who conflict with the state, based on the book of the same name by Dietrich Garstka who was one of the students.[6]
Plot
In late 1956, prior to 1961 construction of the
Kessler, a zealous school superintendent, begins to look into the incident. Fritz Lange, the minister for national education in the GDR, arrives at the school and classifies the incident as counter-revolutionary and asks the class to point to the instigator. The entire class stays silent, and as punishment they are all prohibited from graduating. Under pressure, Erik confesses the entire story about Edgar and listening to RIAS. Edgar is then arrested, with Paul witnessing the arrest. Theo's father tries to reason with Lange, but he is not taken seriously due to his involvement with the East German uprising of 1953.
The next day, Kessler interrogates every member of the class. To up the pressure on Erik, she tells Erik that his father, whom he reveres as a
Cast
- Leonard Scheicher as Theo Lemke
- Tom Gramenz as Kurt Wächter
- Lena Klenke as Lena
- Isaiah Michalski as Paul
- Jonas Dassler as Erik Babinsky
- Florian Lukas as School director Schwarz
- Jördis Triebel as Frau Kessler, investigator
- Michael Gwisdek as Uncle Edgar
- Burghart Klaußner as Fritz Lange, education minister
- Ronald Zehrfeld as Hermann Lemke, Theo's father
- Carina Wiese as Irmgard Lemke, Theo's mother
- Max Hopp as Hans Wächter, Kurt's father
- Judith Engel as Anna Wächter, Kurt's mother
- Bettina Hoppe as Christa, Erik's mother
- Götz Schubert as Pfarrer Melzer, Erik's father
- Daniel Krauss as Lange, secretary of the Free German Youth
- Rolf Kanies as Wardetzki, shooting teacher
- Carmen-Maja Antoni as Lena's grandmother
References
- ^ "The Silent Revolution". Berlin International Film Festival. Retrieved 13 August 2018.
- ^ van Hoeij, Boyd (20 February 2018). "'The Silent Revolution' ('Das schweigende Klassenzimmer'): Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 13 August 2018.
- Lumiere. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
- ^ "Das schweigende Klassenzimmer (2018)". The Numbers. Retrieved 12 September 2018.
- ^ "The Silent Revolution". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 12 September 2018.
- ^ https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/wissen/geschichte/id_83292974/als-die-ddr-eine-ganze-schulklasse-drangsalierte.html, Interview with Dietrich Garstka (German)
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