''The Flying Classroom'' (german: Das fliegende Klassenzimmer) is a 1973 West German

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directed by

Werner Jacobs Werner Jacobs (1909–1999) was a German film director and film editor, editor. He was born in Berlin on the 24 April 1909. He is best known for his contributions to Modebummel (1951), Der Stern von Santa Clara (1958) and André und Ursula (1955). ...

and starring

Joachim Fuchsberger Joachim "Blacky" Fuchsberger (pronounced ; 11 March 1927 – 11 September 2014) was a German actor and television host, best known to a wide German-speaking audience as one of the recurring actors in various Edgar Wallace movies (often a Detecti ...

Heinz Reincke Karl-Heinz Reincke (28 May 1925 – 13 July 2011) was a German-born actor, long-based in Vienna. Selected filmography Films *'' A Heart Returns Home'' (1956) - Besselmann *''Confessions of Felix Krull'' (1957) - Stanko *''Tolle Nacht'' (1957) ...

and

Diana Körner Diana Körner (born 24 September 1944) is a German actress. Outside Germany she is known for her brief appearance as Lieschen in Stanley Kubrick's film ''Barry Lyndon''. Selected filmography * ''Creature with the Blue Hand'' (1967), as Myrna ...

. Two classes in a school have a running feud. It is based on ''

The Flying Classroom ''The Flying Classroom'' (German: ''Das fliegende Klassenzimmer'') is a 1933 novel for children written by the German writer Erich Kästner. In the book Kästner took up the predominantly British genre of the school story, taking place in a b ...

'', a novel by

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.Bock & Bergfelder p.273 It was shot on location around

Bamberg Bamberg (, , ; East Franconian: ''Bambärch'') is a town in Upper Franconia, Germany, on the river Regnitz close to its confluence with the river Main. The town dates back to the 9th century, when its name was derived from the nearby ' castle. C ...

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Partial cast

as Dr. Johannes Bökh (nicknamed "Justus" or "the just") *

as Dr. Robert Uthofft (nicknamed "Nichtraucher" or "Non-smoker") *

as Nurse Beate *

Bernd Herzsprung Bernd Herzsprung (born March 22, 1942 in Hamburg, Germany) is a German television actor. Herzsprung completed his acting training with Joseph Offenbach and then played in theaters in Hamburg (including the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in '' The Cap ...

as Theodor Laban *

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as Professor Kreuzkamm * Anita Mally as Inge Kreuzkamm *

Tilo von Berlepsch Tilo von Berlepsch (30 December 1913 – 8 April 1991) was a German actor. He appeared in more than 90 films and television shows between 1949 and 1977. He came from the Berlepsch family and was a grandson of the ornithologist Hans Hermann C ...

as Director Grünkern * Gudula Blau as Mrs. von Simmern *

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as Mr. von Simmern *

Otto Kurth Otto is a masculine German given name and a surname. It originates as an Old High German short form (variants ''Audo'', ''Odo'', ''Udo'') of Germanic names beginning in ''aud-'', an element meaning "wealth, prosperity". The name is recorded fro ...

as Otto Carstens *

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as Johnny Trotz *

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as Sebastian Frank *

Daniel Mueller Daniel is a masculine given name and a surname of Hebrew origin. It means "God is my judge"Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 68. (cf. Gabriel—"God is my strength"), ...

as Uli von Simmern

References

Bibliography

* Hans-Michael Bock and Tim Bergfelder. ''The Concise Cinegraph: An Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

* 1973 films West German films 1970s German-language films Films based on children's books Films based on German novels Films based on works by Erich Kästner Films directed by Werner Jacobs 1970s children's comedy films German comedy films Remakes of German films Films set in schools Films set in boarding schools German children's films Constantin Film films 1973 comedy films 1970s German films {{1970s-comedy-film-stub