Berlin, 1956. Five years before construction started on the Berlin wall, and the border between East and West is still open to those who have a persuasive cover story. Teenage schoolboys bunk across to oggle consumer goods and the breasts of movie stars. But this is a border which is permeable, not just to people, but to ideas — the kind of ideas which are perceived, by the twitchily defensive communist officials, as counter revolutionary. A group of students sees their life changed forever by a harmless human act of solidarity during the early stage of the Cold War, where freedom of thinking and integrity could make anyone an enemy of the state or an ordinary hero. Based on an autobiographical book by Dietrich Garstka, Lars Kraume’s THE SILENT REVOLUTION (2018, 111min) is a solid, good-looking piece of filmmaking which is elevated by a clutch of strong performances from the young cast.