Films by Philipp Clarin

Germany 2010, 90 min
by Philipp Clarin

In 1939, the National Socialists founded an elite boarding school for music, at the personal wish of Hitler himself. This would be where the most talented boys in the Greater German Reich would be brought up and trained to become the leading musicians of the future Germany. But instead of raising the boys to also become proper Nazis, the school’s headmaster, Kurt Thomas, feels more obliged to church music and humanistic culture than to the strict marches and the Blut und Boden (Blood and Soil) i