It is the vibrant expression of the essence of the individual, the film seems to be saying, echoing the words of Jean-Paul Sartre on the silence of those resisting under torture: 'Each of them, against the oppressors, sets about to be themselves, irremediably, and by choosing themselves in their freedom, they choose freedom for all.' This is why the scenes in which something deeply human and serious plays out in total silence, are the most poignant in the film, and necessarily so. While union is about the freedom of everyone, we can’t manipulate it any more than we can break the silence. All while offering a range of different figures of adhesion (to an ideal, to an ideology), through the varied situations of each of the students, each carrying their own expectations of allegiance (family, social.), The Silent Revolution shows that – thanks to a framework built on unison – the socialist regime is just as quick to bring out the individual in people when it comes to denouncing the deviant and betraying each other to save one’s own skin. At Stalinstadt, where school involves propagandist education accompanied by paramilitary training, it’s difficult to ignore the similarities between the new regime (where the word 'friendship' has become a slogan) and the frightful regime which preceded it, used by the communist party as an ambiguous scarecrow. Fritz Bauer is about the mechanisms of membership and collective use employed by totalitarian regimes that rely on a complete absence of dissension and perfect alignment (in uniformed rows).

The brilliantly nuanced analysis provided by the director of The People vs. Kraume’s film analyses the serious and complex issues of this “act of protest,” all while recounting the crescendo of the consequences of said act, poorly masked as an 'apolitical' protest (also voted for by the majority).

Carried by an energy that is typical of youth (powerfully brought to life by a cast of irresistible fresh-faced actors), the high school students who watch girls, dance secretly to electrifying rock tunes and wonder, faced with the 'anti-revolutionary insurgency' (potentially 'fascist') in Budapest, what the Western media is saying on the other side of what will soon become an impassable wall.

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