The Silent Revolution
– It's 1956. During a visit to a cinema in West Berlin, East German high school pupils Theo and Kurt s..
It's 1956. During a visit to a cinema in West Berlin, East German high school pupils Theo and Kurt see disturbing newsreel footage of the uprising in Budapest. Back in Stalinstadt, one of the GDR’s flagship workers’ settlements, they have the idea of holding a minute’s silence in class for the victims of the Hungarian struggle for freedom.
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Release Date:
01 Mar 2018
Language:
German, Russian
Director:
Lars Kraume
Writer:
Dietrich Garstka (book), Lars Kraume (adaptation)
Main Actors:
Leonard Scheicher, Tom Gramenz, Lena Klenke, Isaiah Michalski
Plot:
A group of twelfth-grade pupils decide to show their solidarity with the victims of the 1956 Hungarian uprising by staging two minutes of silence during lessons.
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