The read
It runs a compact 1h 29m.
Synopsis
Max Stricker, an old anti-fascist, informs a class of eighth graders before their planned visit to the former concentration camp in Buchenwald. But the boys and girls are not very interested in Max′s lecture and instead stop his lecture with their constant interferences. On the trip to Buchenwald, the class roughnecks around wannabe hoodlum King also want to cause trouble. Thus, a small group of pupils secretly leaves the train before it arrives. Max notices the runaways, follows them, and offers them a bet: He challenges them to get to Weimar on their own, with only five Marks left.
Ratings
TMDB9/10
1 audience votes
Key crew
- Egon SchlegelDirector
- Manfred FreitagWriter
- Egon SchlegelWriter
- Joachim NestlerWriter
Cast
- Peter SturmMax
- Wolfgang WinklerCornelias Vater
- Katrin MartinLehrerin Fräulein Zahn
- Carmen-Maja AntoniPostangestellte
- May-Britt FechnerCornelia
- Wolfgang DehlerLKW Fahrer
- Heide KippDesignerin
- Wolfgang GreeseWachtmeister
- Waltraut KrammGemeindeschwester
- Marie-Anne FliegelCornelias Mutter
- Hans-Gerd SonnenburgPolizist
- Horst PapkeBäckermeister