'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-authorities. And was not earlier restored than in 1990, after the DDR's collapse.
In the meantime, director Herrmann Zschoche managed to produce 19 other good DDR-films - with official approval.
Back to 'Karla': today, this film not only lives on as being good; it also has become a symbol of the DDR film-censuring.
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-authorities. And was not earlier restored than in 1990, after the DDR's collapse.
In the meantime, director Herrmann Zschoche managed to produce 19 other good DDR-films - with official approval.
Back to 'Karla': today, this film not only lives on as being good; it also has become a symbol of the DDR film-censuring.