Kids are not any safer living under oppressive regimes and ideologies than their parents are. That is a lesson all students should learn sooner rather than later, for all our sakes. In 1956 East Germany, the Stalinstadt senior class always basically knew the communist government was vicious and unjust, but dramatic events will prove it beyond all doubt in Lars Kraume’s historically based film “The Silent Revolution,” which is a perfect supplement for your schooling-at-home lesson plans.
It all started when two high school seniors wanted to see German bombshell Marion Michael in the risqué (for the time) “Liane, Jungle Goddess,” naturally screening only in the morally decadent West. This is pre-Wall, when travel between East and West was not strictly forbidden.
