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Max und siebeneinhalb Jungen

Max und siebeneinhalb Jungen

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 5, 1980

Runtime

1h 29m

Genres

Adventure, Family

Original Title

Max und siebeneinhalb Jungen

Production Companies

DEFA

Director

Egon Schlegel

Description

Max Stricker, an old anti-fascist, informs a class of eighth graders before their planned visit to the former concentration camp in Buchenwald. But the boys and girls are not very interested in Max′s lecture and instead stop his lecture with their constant interferences. On the trip to Buchenwald, the class roughnecks around wannabe hoodlum King also want to cause trouble. Thus, a small group of pupils secretly leaves the train before it arrives. Max notices the runaways, follows them, and offers them a bet: He challenges them to get to Weimar on their own, with only five Marks left.