1 real historical location · Germany
Set in an elite Nazi boarding school in 1942, this German film follows a working-class boy who wins a scholarship to study among the sons of ideologues. A coming-of-age story showing how totalitarianism corrupts youth and erases individual identity.
CinemaMapped has mapped 1 real historical location where the story takes place, spanning Germany.
Friedrich Weimer earns a place at a NAPOLA — a National Political Institute of Education — in Brandenburg, discovering the sinister ideology beneath the elit...
The NAPOLA schools were elite boarding schools established in 1933 to train the next generation of Nazi leaders. By 1944 there were 39 schools across Germany. Students were selected for ideological reliability and phy...
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