{"id":59013,"date":"2018-02-16T11:35:54","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T11:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=59013"},"modified":"2018-02-16T11:35:54","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T11:35:54","slug":"berlin-festival-movie-tells-true-story-of-cold-war-rebels-with-a-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/entertainment\/berlin-festival-movie-tells-true-story-of-cold-war-rebels-with-a-cause.html","title":{"rendered":"Berlin festival movie tells true story of Cold War rebels with a cause"},"content":{"rendered":"

Berlin festival movie tells true story of Cold War rebels with a cause<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

As Soviet tanks crushed an uprising in Hungary in 1956, a group of children in East Germany began their own protest, taking on a communist regime that would keep their country divided for three more decades.<\/span><\/p>\n

The true story is told in \u201cThe Silent Revolution\u201d (\u201cDas schweigende Klassenzimmer\u201d), a movie that premieres at the Berlin International Film Festival that opened this week in the city that is now the capital of a unified, peaceful Germany.<\/span><\/p>\n

With tightly controlled news media back home, two schoolboys from the East see footage of the 1956 Hungarian uprising – a key moment of Cold War history – while on a trip to the cinema in West Berlin.<\/span><\/p>\n

They tell their classmates and after listening to western news on the radio together at a house in the countryside, they agree to hold a minute\u2019s silence for those killed in the failed revolution.<\/span><\/p>\n

The entire class is ultimately expelled and most flee to the West in a bid for freedom and to put their academic careers back on track.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dietrich Garstka, who wrote the book on which the movie is based, started school in 1945 – the year Adolf Hitler\u2019s Nazi regime collapsed – so the communist East German system was all he knew.<\/span><\/p>\n

He risked a lot by refusing to answer his history teacher\u2019s questions during the minute\u2019s silence, but, Garstka said: \u201cDoing that protest was important to me, to show these scumbags that we think differently to them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He and his classmates realized they would have no chance of making a life for themselves if branded enemies of the state, so they decided it was better to take the risk of fleeing.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey completely underestimated us, thinking we were little puppets who believed what the \u2018great socialists\u2019 said,\u201d he told Reuters.<\/span><\/p>\n

While Garstka\u2019s rebellion was against a system that most Germans now look on as a grimly repressive regime, he says young people today remain rebellious and always will.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think young people are often underestimated by their parents nowadays. They\u2019re not indifferent … you can be sure they\u2019ll get involved whenever there\u2019s a campaign or something to do,\u201d Garstka said, adding that ecological issues were often the focus of protests in today\u2019s Germany.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf I wanted to be ironic, I could say we had the luck of growing up in a dictatorship and we could show that (rebelliousness).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Silent Revolution\u201d, directed by Lars Kraume, premieres in Berlin on Tuesday. The festival runs until Feb. 25.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-filmfestival-berlin-silent-revolution\/berlin-festival-movie-tells-true-story-of-cold-war-rebels-with-a-cause-idUSKCN1G00Y6<\/span><\/p>\n

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