Silent Revolution, The (Das schweigende Klassenzimmer)

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Synopsis

German-language Drama. Based on the book by Dietrich Garstka. In East Germany in 1956, a group of high school students (Leonard Scheicher, Tom Gramenz, Lena Klenke, Jonas Dassler) stage two minutes of silence in support of an uprising in Hungary.

Content elements

• Infrequent use of cursing, profanity, and vulgar expressions
• Infrequent portrayals of gun and hand-to-hand violence - little detail; infrequent depictions of corpses in a newsreel context - little detail
• Infrequent portrayals of smoking and alcohol use in a recreational context - little detail

Thematic elements

• Solidarity and resistance
• The power of the state
• Bravery

Classification rationale

Rated PG for some violence

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