DAS FLIEGENDE KLASSENZIMMER

Carolina Hellsgård’s contemporary take on Erich Kästner’s classic book follows the gifted 13-year-old Martina from a Berlin high-rise housing estate as she takes up a scholarship at the highly respected Johann-Sigismund Gymnasium boarding school in the Alps. All she wants to do is study and just stay out of trouble, but Martina increasingly finds herself caught between the bitter rivalry existing between the boarders and the “externals” from the local village. The plan to settle their neverending dispute by then putting on a play together at the end of term naturally doesn’t go off well, but then a dramatic accident changes everything…