Men Make History. We Make The Men.
Plot outline
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Cast
- Max Riemelt
- Tom Schilling
- Jonas Jägermeyr
- Leon A. Kersten
- Thomas Drechsel
- Martin Goeres
- Florian Stetter
- Devid Striesow
- Joachim Bißmeier
- Michael Schenk
- Justus von Dohnányi
- Claudia Michelsen
- Julie Engelbrecht
- Johannes Zirner
- Alexander Held
- Sissy Höfferer
- Max Dombrovka
- Marian Schole
- Jakob Semotan
- Lenz von Johnston
- Thomas Sittler
- Hans Dieter Knebel
- Götz Schubert
- Dennis Gansel
- Jakub Ulicník
- Michael Gerber
- Michael Rast
- Michael Lerchenberg
- Robert Russel
- Michael Rones
- Otmar Brancuzský
- Ljuba Krbová
- Jan Fiala
- Zdenek Maryska
- Karel Dobrý
- Zdenek Julina
- Jana Altmanová
- Jan Bláha
- Bohumil Svarc
- Ota Filip
- Michael Beran
- Jan Bidlas
- Lukás Fronek
- Paval Bartúnek
- Otta Tesar
- Radek Zima
- Maxim Tretiakov
- Otokar Harlas
- Jan Jarkovský
- Lubomir Janci
- Johannes Hendrik Langer
- Daniel Svoboda
Plots
Friedrich's boxing skills gets him in an elite Nazi high school in a castle in 1942. He enrolls against his dad's wish as it promises a brighter future. It's not what he expected.
In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (NaPolA) - high schools that produce Nazi elite. Over his father's objections, Friedrich enrolls, seeing this as his ticket out of factory life to university and a good salary. During his year in seventh column (fifth form), this innocence is altered as Friedrich encounters hazing, cruelty, death, and the Nazi code. His friendship with Albrecht, the ascetic son of the area's governor, is central to this education; a night in the forest hunting for escaped Russian POWs brings things to a head.