Karla
An idealistic teacher is shocked to discover her pupils are already cynical and opportunistic. Her colleague soon grows resentful when she uses new and challenging techniques to help her students overcome obstacles.
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"'Karla' is a young female teacher, who just completed her studies. Entering her first teaching job, she is determined to educate her pupils in indepentently thinking, instead of indoctrinating them with Communist slogans. As was common practice in the Communist East Germany (DDR) of 1965. Inevitably Karla gets into trouble for this, and that's what this films is about. We see a fascinating traingle of Karla, her director, and a guardian of the education board. The story of this film also develops outside the white screen: in 1965 'Karla' was forbidden by de DDR-auth..."
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Even though the film was produced in East Germany by the government-funded DEFA studio, the shoot could not be completed and the film was heavily edited and finally banned from being shown on the grounds that it was "nihilistic, skeptical and hostile". After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the film was reconstructed by cinematographer Günter Ost and presented at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival in 1990. The final version contains some elliptical editing and a few jump cuts resulting from the incomplete shoot, but the film has a coherent narrative.
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An idealistic teacher is shocked to discover her pupils are already cynical and opportunistic. Her colleague soon grows resentful when she uses new and challenging techniques to help her students overcome obstacles.