The Silent Revolution (Das schweigende Klassenzimmer) (2018)

NAME OF FILM: THE SILENT REVOLUTION (DAS SCHWEIGENDE KLASSENZIMMER)

DIRECTOR(S): Lars Kraume

STARRING: Leonard Scheicher, Tom Gramenz, Lena Klenke

GENRE: Drama Film

SYNOPSIS: In 1956, before the Berlin Wall was built, and passage between East and West Germany was less restrictive, two East Berlin teens decide to catch a movie on the other side of the city. When they see a western newsreel that has a decidedly different take on the Hungarian Revolution than the coverage on their state-sanctioned news agencies, it leads them to organize a moment of silence among their classmates as a tribute to those brutally put down by the Soviet regime. What they couldn’t know though was this act of teenage defiance has far-reaching consequences both inside and outside their classroom, empowering and endangering nearly everyone they know.

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