Das schweigende Klassenzimmer | The Silent Revolution
Berlinale Special 2018
DEU 2017
by: Lars Kraume
Jonas Dassler, Leonard Scheicher, Lena Klenke, Isaiah Michalski, Tom Gramenz
Das schweigende Klassenzimmer | The Silent Revolution
Berlinale Special 2018
DEU 2017
by: Lars Kraume
Jonas Dassler, Isaiah Michalski, Tom Gramenz, Leonard Scheicher
Das schweigende Klassenzimmer | The Silent Revolution
Berlinale Special 2018
DEU 2017
by: Lars Kraume
Florian Lukas, Leonard Scheicher
Das schweigende Klassenzimmer | The Silent Revolution
Berlinale Special 2018
DEU 2017
by: Lars Kraume
Burghart Klaußner
Das schweigende Klassenzimmer | The Silent Revolution
Berlinale Special 2018
DEU 2017
by: Lars Kraume
Leonard Scheicher
Das schweigende Klassenzimmer | The Silent Revolution
Berlinale Special 2018
DEU 2017
by: Lars Kraume
Leonard Scheicher, Ronald Zehrfeld
Das schweigende Klassenzimmer | The Silent Revolution
Berlinale Special 2018
DEU 2017
by: Lars Kraume
Jonas Dassler, Jördis Triebel
Das schweigende Klassenzimmer | The Silent Revolution
Berlinale Special 2018
DEU 2017
by: Lars Kraume
Lars Kraume
Feb 20, 2018Florian Lukas
The actor giving an interview on the Red Carpet.
Berlinale Special – Das schweigende Klassenzimmer | The Silent Revolution
Feb 20, 2018Michael Gwisdek
The actor on the Red Carpet.
Berlinale Special – Das schweigende Klassenzimmer | The Silent Revolution
Feb 20, 2018Ronald Zehrfeld
The actor on the Red Carpet.
Berlinale Special – Das schweigende Klassenzimmer | The Silent Revolution
Feb 20, 2018Carina N. Wiese, Ronald Zehrfeld, Dietrich Garstka, Lars Kraume, Tom Gramenz, Florian Lukas, Jonas Dassler, Lena Klenke, Isaiah Michalski, Leonard Scheicher, Michael Gwisdek
The director, the author of the book, on which the film was based, and the cast at Friedrichstadt-Palast.
Berlinale Special – Das schweigende Klassenzimmer | The Silent Revolution
Feb 20, 2018The Filmteam and Dieter Kosslick
The director and the cast at Berlinale VIP Club with the Festival Director.
Berlinale Special – Das schweigende Klassenzimmer | The Silent Revolution
Feb 20, 2018Leonard Scheicher, Lars Kraume, Michael Gwisdek
The director and the actors before the premiere at Berlinale Palast.
Berlinale Special – Das schweigende Klassenzimmer | The Silent Revolution
Feb 20, 2018Jonas Dassler, Ronald Zehrfeld, Florian Lukas
The actors before the premiere at Berlinale Palast.
Berlinale Special – Das schweigende Klassenzimmer | The Silent Revolution
Feb 20, 2018Tom Gramenz, Isaiah Michalski, Lena Klenke
The actors before the premiere at Berlinale Palast.
Berlinale Special – Das schweigende Klassenzimmer | The Silent Revolution
Feb 20, 2018film team
At the Photo Call.
Berlinale Special – Das schweigende Klassenzimmer | The Silent Revolution
Feb 20, 2018Leonard Scheicher, Isaiah Michalski, Dietrich Garstka, Lars Kraume, Lena Klenke, Jonas Dassler, Tom Gramenz
The director, the author of the book, the film is based on, and the actors at the Photo Call.
Berlinale Special – Das schweigende Klassenzimmer | The Silent Revolution
Feb 20, 2018Dietrich Garstka, Lars Kraume
The author of the book, the film is based on, and the director at the Press Conference.
Berlinale Special – Das schweigende Klassenzimmer | The Silent Revolution
Feb 20, 2018Ronald Zehrfeld, Leonard Schleicher, Lena Klenke, Jonas Dassler
The actors at the Press Conference.
Berlinale Special – Das schweigende Klassenzimmer | The Silent Revolution
Feb 23, 2018Paula Syniawa, Lars Kraume
The host and the director during the Q&A after the special screening for the inmates of Tegel prison.
Berlinale Goes Kiez – Das schweigende Klassenzimmer | The Silent Revolution
Feb 23, 2018Lars Kraume
The director after the special screening at Tegel prison.
Berlinale Goes Kiez – Das schweigende Klassenzimmer | The Silent Revolution
Feb 23, 2018Lars Kraume
The director after the special screening at Tegel prison.
Berlinale Goes Kiez – Das schweigende Klassenzimmer | The Silent Revolution
Feb 23, 2018Lars Kraume
The director and the audience after the screening at the neighbourhood cinema in Berlin-Adlershof.
Berlinale Goes Kiez – Das schweigende Klassenzimmer | The Silent Revolution
Lars Kraume
Isaiah Michalski, Jonas Dassler
Tom Gramenz, Lena Klenke, Leonard Scheicher
Miriam Düssel (Producer), Michael Gwisdek, Florian Lukas, Ronald Zehrfeld, Jonas Dassler, Leonard Scheicher, Lena Klenke, Tom Gramenz (/Actors), Dietrich Garstka (Author original book), Lars Kraume (Director, Screenwriter)
Moderation: Jenni Zylka
Within the frame of the 2018 Berlinale Goes Kiez programme The Silent Revolution by Lars Kraume had a special film presentation for prison inmates inside the penal institution (JVA) in Tegel
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. Neither the boys, nor their parents, nor the school’s administration are prepared for the minor and major reactions that their expression of solidarity unleashes. The school principal tries to dismiss the incident as juvenile mischief and deal with it internally, but the pupils find themselves snared in the political machinery of a state determined to make an example of them. Condemning their act as counter-revolutionary, the education minister demands that the pupils name their ringleader. They are faced with a decision that has dramatic consequences for their future.
Director and screenwriter Lars Kraume has cast up-and-coming actors in the leading roles and established actors in supporting roles for his adaptation of Dietrich Garstka’s eponymous book in which Garstka recounts his own personal experiences and those of his 18 classmates. A moving chapter in German post-war history.
by
Lars Kraume
Germany 2017
German
111’ · Colour
Rating R12
World premiere
Leonard Scheicher (Theo Lemke)Tom Gramenz (Kurt Wächter)Lena Klenke (Lena)Isaiah Michalski (Paul)Jonas Dassler (Erik Babinski)Ronald Zehrfeld (Hermann Lemke)Florian Lukas (Principal Schwarz)Jördis Triebel (Frau Kessler)Michael Gwisdek (Edgar)Burghart Klaußner (National Education Minister Lange)
Born in Chieri, Italy in 1973, he grew up in Frankfurt am Main in Germany. After working as an assistant to advertising and portrait photographers, he directed his first short film in 1992. In 1994 he took up a degree at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb) where his graduation film, Dunckel, won the Adolf Grimme Award. A writer and director, his recent directing work includes episodes for the German TV crime series, 'Tatort' . His films No Songs of Love (2005) and Good Morning, Mr. Grothe (2007) have screened in Panorama and his political thriller The People vs. Fritz Bauer won the 2016 German Film Award.
Filmography (selection)1993 3.21 Uhr; short film 1995 Bernie; short film 1996 Zahltag; short film 1997 Life Is Too Short To Dance With Ugly Women; short film · King Of The Elephants; short film · Einsatz Hamburg Süd; TV series, several episodes 1998 Dunckel; TV movie · Der Mörder meiner Mutter; TV movie 2001 Viktor Vogel – Commercial Man 2004 Tatort; TV series, one episode 2005 Tatort; TV series, one episode · Keine Lieder über Liebe (No Songs of Love) · Der Elefant; TV movie 2007 Guten Morgen, Herr Grothe (Good Morning, Mr. Grothe) · KDD – Kriminaldauerdienst; TV series, several episodes 2008 Der frühe Abschied 2010 Die kommenden Tage (The Coming Days) 2011 Tatort; TV series, one episode · Tatort; TV series, one episode 2012 Tatort; TV series, one episode 2013 Meine Schwestern 2015 Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer (The People vs. Fritz Bauer) · Familienfest 2016 Terror; TV movie 2017 Das schweigende Klassenzimmer (The Silent Revolution)
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2018
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