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FREISTATT

By Marc BRUMMUND

Historical - Completed 2015

A movie based on true stories, about the merciless fight of a boy to save the last bit of humanity and dignity in an oppressive system of society.

Festival Max-Ophüls-Preis Saarbrücken 2015

Competition, Audience Award, Youth Jury Award, German Screenplay Award (Golden Lola)

- Year of production
- 2015
- Genres
- Historical, First film, Drama
- Countries
- GERMANY
- Languages
- GERMAN
- Duration
- 104 mn
- Director(s)
- Marc BRUMMUND
- Writer(s)
- Marc BRUMMUND, Nicole ARMBRUSTER
- Cast
- Alexander HELD, Stefan GROSSMANN, Max RIEMELT, Louis HOFMANN
- Producer(s)
- Stefan SPORBERT (Zum Goldenen Lamm Filmproduktion), Rüdiger HEINZE (Zum Goldenen Lamm Filmproduktion)
- Synopsis
- May 1968: Rolling Stones, bell-bottoms, mini-skirts, sexual revolution, protests against the Vietnam War… While Germany sets off for a new era of freedom, rebellious fourteen-year-old Wolfgang gets sent to Freistatt, a foster home for difficult children. There he shall be “educated” to become a decent boy. Wolfgang puts up a determined resistance against the brutal working conditions and the perfidious education methods of the wardens; he doesn’t allow them to get him down. But for how long can he manage to resist the system of violence and oppression without brutalising himself?
  A movie based on true stories, about the merciless fight of a boy to save the last bit of humanity and dignity in an oppressive system of society.