German Current Film Nights San Diego presents: "Freistatt"
May 1968: Rolling Stones, bell-bottoms, mini-skirts, sexual revolution, protests against the Vietnam War? While Germany sets off for a new era of freedom, rebellious fourteen-year-old Wolfgang gets sent to Freistatt, a foster home for difficult children. There he shall be ?educated? to become a decent boy. Wolfgang puts up a determined resistance against the brutal working conditions and the perfidious education methods of the wardens; he doesn?t allow them to get him down. But for how long can he manage to resist the system of violence and oppression without brutalising himself?
Based on true accounts, Brummunds film is about a boy?s merciless to save his last bit of humanity and dignity in an oppressive system.
German with English subtitles.
Admission/Cost:
Monday April 4 - 7:00 PM
For more information, please visit: www.germancurrentssd.org
May 1968: Rolling Stones, bell-bottoms, mini-skirts, sexual revolution, protests against the Vietnam War? While Germany sets off for a new era of freedom, rebellious fourteen-year-old Wolfgang gets sent to Freistatt, a foster home for difficult children. There he shall be ?educated? to become a decent boy. Wolfgang puts up a determined resistance against the brutal working conditions and the perfidious education methods of the wardens; he doesn?t allow them to get him down. But for how long can he manage to resist the system of violence and oppression without brutalising himself?
Based on true accounts, Brummunds film is about a boy?s merciless to save his last bit of humanity and dignity in an oppressive system.
German with English subtitles.
Admission/Cost:
Monday April 4 - 7:00 PM
For more information, please visit: www.germancurrentssd.org
