"In autumn 1961 in GoIzow/Oderbruch we began filming the story of a school class, documenting a generation's development from its first school year to the age of 25." "This is part three, following" ""Some Day, When I go to school" and "One Year Later"." "It's January 1966." "A FILM FROM THE DEFA FILM STUDIOS FOR NEWSREELS AND DOCUMENTARIES" "KARL GASS CREATIVE WORK GROUP" "What do we have now?" "German." "What do we have now?" "Maths." "No, physics." "No!" "You nuts, Tubby?" "You must've fallen out of bed this morning." "You should film us having a snowball fight." "If we have a snowball fight you have to show how the girls always put snow down our necks." "You should look inside Winfried JercheI's bag." "He always has headphones in there and all sorts of other stuff." "Brigitte, she..." "She fools around and rarely offers any answers." "almost every hour she does it." "Petra fools around in class herself." "well sometimes it's really boring." "They always repeat the same things." "well, when a fight breaks out between some boys outside and we try to break it up, well, we always end up fighting too." "And then we are the guilty ones." "ELEVEN YEARS OLD" "I didn't even really aim." "And in the film we have to show how life is in the fifth year." "Like what we do at school, how we behave." "If we're naughty or good." "And, well, that would just be, be favour." "I've never seen a film that shows kids messing around in class," "like it really is." "Show the bad with the good." "well, if lots of viewers see all this then we'II have to clean up our acts." "Or else they'II just make fun of us." "well now then class, that'II be enough of that." "Sit down." "Mr TempIin, class 5A reports to class." "Thank you." "A Greek myth." "Listen carefully." ""Heaven and Earth had been created, the surf of the sea surged from shore to shore and fish froIicked within." "Birdsong resounded in the skies and animals abounded on the land, but the creature that was capable of reigning over the whole world had yet to be created." "Then Prometheus came to Earth." "He was clever and resourceful and was quick to notice what was lacking on Earth."" "What explanation do you have for that?" ""The creature that was capable of reigning over the whole world"?" "well, when they... say "creature"" "I guess you might think they mean humans." "Christian, what do you think?" "Why must it be humans when it says," ""The creature that was capable of reigning over the whole world had yet to be created."" "well, humans... humans can work and animals can't." "First you have to teach them to do this or that task." "Just like in the jungle." "They have to train the elephants there so they'II drag tree trunks out of the forest." "That's him, there." "I'II read it." ""In Greek mythology the son of the Titan Iapetus" "provided man with fire"." "It's almost the same as what we had in class." "well, Winfried he always brings things into school from home." "One time he brought an encyclopaedia in from a bookshelf at home and then he explained it, what it was." "He looks up the things he doesn't know." "He looked up Prometheus." "He started looking at "P" and then he found it." "Winfried tinkers a Iot and always has something in his bag that he's made." "He always stands in front of the electronics shop" "looking for stuff he can tinker about with and then he buys it." "Here, listen." "Pass them over." "Adjust the headphones." "Can you hear that?" "Yes." "You soldering that?" "already did." "Why you got that motor running anyway?" "These here have magnetic waves and when current runs through here it generates magnetic waves too and the waves repel one another." "Just like these two magnets." "They repel each other too." "But this is an electromagnet and the poles change." "Put the red end against the red end." "I see, you can feel that there's a force there." "But it's invisible." "These are Ioudspeakers, with a very thin wire." "If this wire breaks the headphone will come off." "Who knows animals that don't lay eggs?" "Just tell me." "Uh-huh." "The billy goat and she-goat, does she lay eggs?" "No, the billy goat covers her." "well, yes." "That is correct, it's correct." "But what does that mean, he covers her?" "Is it really that funny?" "I saw a cow do it once." "Yes, and then what happens?" "A calf is born." "tell us about it." "No, I won't tell about it." "It's too silly." "Someone else can." "They're all laughing." "Once you know it's all just nature there's no reason to laugh." "And that's also how people..." "What I enjoy the most is biology." "Because we learn about all the animals and plants in that class." "Like how rabbits and everything else came to be." "So, do these sums in your workbooks as we go." "So, on one hectare we have..." "Write this down." "I really like arithmetic." "I enjoy it most when it's really difficult." "Parts of the USSR, the Ukraine in particular, were to be conquered too." "Bernd?" "In geography we learn about all the canals and the names of the oceans and different countries." "We learn where GoIzow is, most of us knew that." "It's in SeeIow County in the district of Frankfurt Oder in the GDR." "And the GDR is in Europe." "And we learn Russian, we need to Iearn it." "Like if a Russian starts talking to you and you don't know Russian but he thinks you do." "And if I can't speak it at all then I wouldn't know what to say." "...the pencil case." "Tanya says, "The kids are all in class."" "Good, that's right." "Sit down." "So we get it on the first go," "let's review what every schoolchild can do so he or she can learn the vocabulary right away." "IIona?" "Pay attention, sit still, and don't mess around." "Right." "What else?" "I want to play school today." "And I want to do it with my friend Regina GimmeI, she's my pupil." "Good morning." "Morning." "Sit down." "I brought you a handout today and written something down on each one." "It's something we worked on last week." "And you'II work through these tasks just as you did for homework." "I'II walk around the classroom and help you if you have difficulties." "Are we still going to do Russian today too?" "It's already past 5.30." "Why are you looking at the other side?" "Trying to copy, are you?" "Gudrun?" "I don't quite get all this." "Listen, you did it completely wrong." "You should write, F = A x A," "F = 6 x 6 and then solve the problem." "What is six times six?" "It's 36." "So it's 36 centimetres." "Continue like that." "You have a handout." "simply follow the instructions." "I'II sit down now." "If you are finished raise your hand and I'II mark your work." "Yes?" "I've finished." "I'II mark it now, okay?" "You can do them on your own." "If you have questions, ask me." "Oh, I'm to ask you." "Next one." "For me to know, huh?" "Then why do you keep looking?" "Why 4/25 times four?" "Just because." "You just told me it has six planes." "Didn't you just tell me that?" "Yeah, well then I'II start over again." "Today I want to tell you about another ocean that we haven't mentioned at all yet." "It's the Pacific Ocean." "It too is... it is right in the middle of other waters, in the oceans, next to the Indian Ocean." "My friend and I wanted to be actresses" "And we always pIayact, we often do comedies." "Spare no charm and spare no passion Labour or intelligence" "That a decent German nation Flourish as do other lands" "That the people give up flinching At the crimes we do evoke" "And hold out their hand in friendship As they do to other folk" "Neither over nor yet under Other peoples will we be" "From the Oder to the Rhineland From the Alps to the North Sea" "And because we'll make it better Let us guard and love our home" "Love it as our dearest country" "As the others love their own" "Everyone, please." "Spare no charm and spare no passion," "Labour or intelligence" "That a decent German nation" "Flourish as do other lands" "Now just think about how our republic was built." "Why do we need understanding?" "Dieter?" "well, you did raise your hand." "Bernd?" "So you build it sensibly." "Come now, come to the front." "First he'II sing on his own and we'II listen carefully." "Spare no charm..." "No, no good." "What does it mean:" ""Neither over nor yet under other peoples will we be"?" "Neither over nor yet under." "We don't want to oppress others nor do we want to be oppressed." "Now you." "Spare no charm and spare no passion" "Labour or intelligence..." "Stop." "Open your mouth nice and wide." "Wider still." "There you go." "And now say "Spare no charm"." "Spare no charm." "There you go." "Very nice, now you must sing it." "Na-na-na, now you." "Spare no charm and spare no passion" "Labour or intelligence" "Thank you." "Standing up is so strenuous." "well, now." "Na!" ""And because we'II..."" "And because we'll make it better" "No, first the note." "Na!" "Sing the note." "Na!" "Na!" "Higher, higher." "Na!" "Na!" "Now you hit it, now you hit it, good!" "And..." "Now you." "And because we'll make it better" "Let us guard and love our home" "Now he's got it, he's got it." "It took a while." "BAKERY" "Well, there were bombs." "They had bombs." "And like cowards they just dropped them from above so they could destroy everything, and then they had..." "And they showed all the children they shot dead." "They were all lying in, well..." "They had laid them in these graves." "They've already shot and murdered thousands of children." "They must've wanted to conquer the country so they started a war." "I understand exactly what it is they're doing." "Humans can work with fire, can cook with it and use it to weld." "Humans can build rockets and fly to Mars with Sputnik." "Humans can dig deep into the earth to extract mineral resources like ore, gold, silver." "Humans can take pictures of places that are far away from where we are." "Humans can talk to each other from thousands of kilometres away." "And humans can dive." "And build very high buildings." "And fly." "And humans can swim too." "You can do that too." "Do you have other examples?" "They can build bombs too, and they can be horrible." "Happy birthday to you" "Happy birthday to you" "Happy birthday, dear Petra" "Thank you." "Mrs PohI, you have to realize, if you think about it for a second," "I went to school during the war, for four years." "At the end of the war all we had was two hours of school." "My dad spoke at the parent-teacher meeting as well." "And there he said that he can hardly help me anymore." "I think they learned a Iot less back then." "We basically didn't learn a thing." "He understands a bit of technical stuff." "He wanted to be an electrician, then the war started." "He had already done half the training." "Long ago people said all things are as God created them and will stay so." "And it was very, very extraordinary that one man alone came to a realization a good many centuries ago." "He was a very learned man from Greece." "And way back then he said, and you think about what he meant by this." "He said, "Everything is in flows." "One can never bathe in the same river twice."" "What did he mean?" ""Everything flows." "One can never bathe in the same river twice."" "well, Winfried?" "It's always moving." "If the water was still, you could bathe in it twice." "But it keeps flowing, so you can't." "There you are." "Did he only mean that about the water?" "Or did he maybe mean it in another way?" "He meant that you can't stop thinking, that you have to keep moving forward." "That we can't stop." "I can never say I've learned all there is to Iearn." "What I learn today will be obsolete tomorrow." "A clever man somewhere makes a new discovery and so now I have more to Iearn." "I want to know how the first animals came to be." "I want to know how humans came to be." "I want to know why others have different skin colours than we do." "I want to know why the USA went to war in Vietnam." "How it's possible for us to see images on TV." "I want to know why exactly it snows." "How we can get rockets to the moon." "Why the dinosaurs went extinct." "Why does love go through your stomach." "Why we have to get married." "How a match burns." "I want to know why people go to war, why can't we just have peace?" "Copyright © 2010 TITELBILD, berlin subtitles:" "Nathan Fritz et aI."