The Flying Classroom
The Flying Classroom
Language
DE
Subtitle
DE, EN, FR, ES, PT
Genre
Children’s film, literary adaptation
Country
Germany
Year
2002
Director
Tomy Wigand
Cast
Ulrich Noethen, Sebastian Koch, Piet Klocke, Hauke Diekamp, Philipp Peters-Arnolds, Anja Kling, Frederick Lau
Production
Bavaria Film (München)
Length
114 minutes
FSK movie
0 years
THE FLYING CLASSROOM is the screen adaptation of Erich Kästner’s children’s novel. Set at a Bavarian boarding school shortly before the Christmas holidays, the story revolves around missing dictation notebooks, fierce fistfights with boys from a local secondary school, the teacher Justus and a mysterious man known as the Non-Smoker, so called because he lives in a disused non-smoking railway carriage. It is a story about friends who stand by each other unconditionally, a tale of hope and mutual respect – made all the more poignant by the fact that the novel was published in 1933, just as the Nazis seized power, against a backdrop of growing hatred and contempt for humanity.
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