The Silent Revolution
Boston

Kurt and Theo are classmates and best friends. In 1956 they are about to finish school in Stalinstadt, one of the GDR’s flagship workers’ settlements. But during a secret excursion to West Berlin, Theo and Kurt see disturbing newsreel footage of the uprising in Budapest. Back in Stalinstadt, they have the idea of holding a minute’s silence in class for the victims of the Hungarian struggle for freedom. Little do they know how much trouble their seemingly harmless act of solidarity will mean for their future…