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Flying Classroom

Original title: Das fliegende Klassenzimmer
  • 19541954
  • 1h 32m
IMDb RATING
7.1/10
535
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Flying Classroom (1954)
DramaComedyFamily
All is not really well between the boys of Gymnasium and the boys of the six-form High School: sparks fly when they get within 100m of each other! The continuous feud between the pupils is o... Read allAll is not really well between the boys of Gymnasium and the boys of the six-form High School: sparks fly when they get within 100m of each other! The continuous feud between the pupils is only one of the pleasant alternations, which life brings into the everyday school life. In ... Read allAll is not really well between the boys of Gymnasium and the boys of the six-form High School: sparks fly when they get within 100m of each other! The continuous feud between the pupils is only one of the pleasant alternations, which life brings into the everyday school life. In addition, there are the rehearsals for the school theatre; and there are the secrets aroun... Read all
IMDb RATING
7.1/10
535
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    • Kurt Hoffmann
    • Erich Kästner(novel)
  • Stars
    • Paul Dahlke
    • Heliane Bei
    • Paul Klinger
    • Kurt Hoffmann
    • Erich Kästner(novel)
  • Stars
    • Paul Dahlke
    • Heliane Bei
    • Paul Klinger
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    • 4User reviews
    • 5Critic reviews
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    Paul Dahlke
    Paul Dahlke
    • Justus
    Heliane Bei
    • Schwester Beate
    Paul Klinger
    Paul Klinger
    • Der Nichtraucher
    Erich Ponto
    Erich Ponto
    • Der Sanitätsrat
    Bruno Hübner
    • Prof. Kreuzkamm
    Herbert Kroll
    • Direktor Grünkern
    Rudolf Vogel
    • Friseur Krüger
    Willy Reichert
    • Martins Vater
    Ruth Hausmeister
    • Martins Mutter
    Arno Ebert
    • Johnnys Vater
    Peter Vogel
    • Der schöne Theodor
    Peter Tost
    • Martin
    Peter Kraus
    Peter Kraus
    • Johnny
    Bert Brandt
    • Matz
    • (as Bert Brandt jr.)
    Knut Mahlke
    • Uli
    Axel Arens
    • Sebastian
    Michael Verhoeven
    Michael Verhoeven
    • Ferdinand
    Bernhard von der Planitz
    • Egerland
    • (as Bernh. v. d. Planitz)
      • Kurt Hoffmann
      • Erich Kästner(novel) (screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      This is not the first and not the last project director Kurt Hoffmann did with writer Erich Kästner. He directed Ich vertraue Dir meine Frau an (1943), in which not only Paul Dahlke was also playing a role, but Kästner served as an uncredited writer. Later Hoffmann also directed Drei Männer im Schnee (1955), another movie based on a novel by Erich Kästner, to which he also wrote the screenplay.
    • Goofs
      When Ferdinand plays a prolonged solo before the start of the play (near the end of the movie), Matz hits him with half a roll on the head. Surprised, Ferdinand takes his hands off the piano, but the music continues for several seconds.
    • Connections
      Referenced in Annaluise & Anton (1999)
    • Soundtracks
      March Of The Toreadors
      (uncredited)

      written by Georges Bizet

    User reviews4

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    Still worth watching today
    Unlike some other German movies of the 1950s, this one is still worth watching. It is a true adaptation of Erich Kästner's children's' novel of the same name. The author did not only write the screenplay himself , but also appears in the first and last scene and provides the narrator's voice in several scenes. With a cast of prominent German actors of the time, notably Paul Dahlke and Paul Klinger, and budding rock'n'roll star Peter Kraus in his first movie role, the movie tells the story of the "Tertia" students (7th/8th grade) in a small town boarding school, who continue a "prehistoric" feud with the boys from a neighbouring school. Woven into this narrative are questions of honesty, courage, loyalty, friendship - and money issues, which never lack in Kästner's books. The boys also write and perform a play about the lessons with their favourite teacher, Johannes Böck called Justus (the just one) and moreover manage to bring him back together with a long-lost childhood friend. I was astonished to see the very good acting of the child actors, among them now famous German director Michael Verhoeven. Even though it's sometimes obvious that painted scenery is used and the editing is somewhat less varied than what we're used to these days, the movie never seems dated in a way that makes it an effort to watch - quite the contrary!
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    • Release date
      • September 3, 1954 (West Germany)
      • West Germany
      • German
      • Latin
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    • Filming locations
      • Marquartstein Castle, Chiemgau, Bavaria, Germany
    • Production companies
      • Filmwelt
      • Carlton-Film
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    • 1 hour 32 minutes
      • Black and White
      • Mono

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