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THE SILENT REVOLUTION

DAS SCHWEIGENDE KLASSENZIMMER

By Lars KRAUME

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Drama - Completed 2018

A gripping and true story about the extraordinary courage of individuals in a time of political oppression.

Berlinale - EFM 2018

Special Gala

Achtung Film! - Goethe Institut Montreal 2018

Festival 2 Cinéma de Valenciennes 2018

Best Actor Award

Fajr International Film Festival 2018

International Competition

FilmFest München - Munich Film Festival 2018

German Cinema Award for Peace - Best Director

Taoyuan FF 2018

Fenêtre sur le Monde (Window on the World)

Film by the Sea IFF 2018

Film and Litterature Award

Jameson CineFest - Miskolc IFF 2018

Special Jury Award

- Year of production
- 2018
- Genres
- Drama, Historical, Family
- Countries
- GERMANY
- Languages
- GERMAN
- Duration
- 111 mn
- Director(s)
- Lars KRAUME
- Writer(s)
- Lars KRAUME
- Cast
- Leonard SCHEICHER, Tom GRAMENZ, Lena KLENKE, Jonas DASSLER, Jördis TRIEBEL, Florian LUKAS
- Producer(s)
- Miriam DÜSSEL (AKZENTE FILM & FERNSEHPRODUKTION)
- Synopsis
- The year is 1956. During a visit to the cinema in West Berlin, high school pupils Theo (Leonard Scheicher) and Kurt (Tom Gramenz) see dramatic pictures of the Hungarian uprising in Budapest on the newsreel. Back at school in Stalinstadt, they spontaneously decide to hold a minute’s silence in solidarity with the victims of the uprising during a lesson. But the gesture causes much bigger ripples than expected: while their headmaster (Florian Lukas) initially tries to put the whole thing down to the whim of youth, the schoolchildren become objects of the political machinations of the fledgling East Germany. The People’s Education Minister (Burghart Klaußner) condemns the action as a clearly counterrevolutionary act and demands that the ringleader be named within a week. But the schoolchildren stick together, thus facing with a decision that will change their lives for ever…