Klass (film)

Movie
German title	Klass - Chronicle of a disaster
Original title	Class
Country of production	Estonia
original language	Estonian
Publishing year	2007
length	97 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Ilmar Raag
script	Ilmar Raag
music	Martin Kallasvee ; Paul Oja ; Timo Steiner
cut	Tambet Tasuja
occupation
	Vallo Kirs : Kaspar; Pärt Uusberg : Joosep; Lauri Pedaja : Different; Paula Solvak : Thea; Mikk Mägi : Paul; Riina Ries : Riina; Joonas Paas : Toomas; Kadi Metsla : Kati; Triin Tenso : Kerli; Virgo Ernits : Tiit; Karl Sakrits : Olav;

Klass is an Estonian feature film from the year 2007 . The director was Ilmar Raag , who also wrote the script.

action

The student Joosep is introverted , has no self-confidence and cannot play basketball . That is why he is considered a " freak " and is bullied by all other classmates in his class . Joosep's classmate Anders, on the other hand, is the complete opposite of his character: He is extroverted , self-confident, dominant , sadistic and extremely aggressive . He is the alpha of the class and loves to bully Joosep and turn his classmates against him.

When the boys lock Joosep up naked in the girls' dressing room after gym class, Kaspar lets him out again, to the displeasure of Anders. On the same evening Kaspar is invited to a house party, at which Anders and Kaspar's friend Thea are also present. Anders tries to get to Thea here, but she is annoyed by him. Because that annoys him, he speaks to Kaspar about the incident in the girls' dressing room in order to scold him in front of the others and forbids him to continue protecting Joosep. However, Kaspar refuses to obey Anders and mocks his position as an alpha animal. Anders now feels threatened in his position of power and freaks out by pushing Kaspar away and beating him. However, the brawl is stopped by the resident's intervention. Kaspar then goes home.

The next day at school, Kaspar discovered that Anders and Toomas, who sat next to him, had smeared his chair with paint. So he now sits down next to Joosep. Shortly afterwards, Joosep's exercise book is passed around and hidden by Paul in the class. When the teacher wants to check the homework, she asks Joosep where his are. He replies that someone has her in class but doesn't know who it is. The teacher then asks the class to return the exercise book to Joosep. But because nobody does that, she orders all students except Joosep to get up and stand until Joosep's homework appears again. In between, a classmate asks Anders whether she should return the notebook to Joosep, but he refuses, so that the young people have to stand still for the entire hour. After class, Paul is called to the headmistress because he's top of the class. He takes advantage of this opportunity to blacken Kaspar at the headmistress by falsely accusing him of teasing Joosep and of stealing his notebook. From now on the whole class is after Joosep because they blame him for having to stand for the whole lesson. Different orders that Joosep should be punished daily for his alleged "guilt" from now on.

In the following time, Kaspar protects Joosep more and more often, because he is the only one in the class who feels sorry for him. Kaspar sees this as a question of honor . A kind of friendship develops between the two students. But the attacks of the guys under Anders' leadership on the two are getting more violent. They are beaten every day, and teachers and parents ask questions that make things worse. Joosep even asks Kaspar not to defend him any further because the others have urged him to do so. Thea also tries to get Kaspar to stop protecting Joosep because she is concerned about her reputation in the group and does not want to be seen as the friend of a "fagot" who defends the "freak". In addition, Kaspar is losing its attractiveness in their eyes, in his rank as an outcast from the group . The constantly deteriorating relationship with Thea puts Kaspar under strong emotional pressure. Despite everything, however, he does not let himself be dissuaded from continuing to defend Joosep.

Finally, Paul, Toomas and Anders use fake e-mail addresses to arrange a meeting for Kaspar and Joosep on the beach in order to portray them as "gay". Joosep and Kaspar both appear on the beach, but do not know that they have been set up. Then her classmates, boys and girls, suddenly appear on the beach, including Anders and Thea. At this point, Thea, urged by Anders and the others, openly ends her relationship with Kaspar. Kaspar Anders hits the ground in a rage. Anders, however, pulls out his knife to keep Kaspar at a distance. Then the others pull out their knives and use them to grind Kaspar and Joosep. You now force Kaspar to suck Joosep, whereupon Kaspar vomits. Some of the girls left the beach at this point because they didn't want to see it, while others stayed to laugh at Kaspar and Joosep.

Humiliated and angry about this incident, Joosep and Kaspar decide to start a rampage . The two meet in front of the school, where Joosep Kaspar explains how to use a pistol. Armed with a total of two pistols and a rifle, both enter the school building. They tell a teacher passing by to call the police. When they arrive in the school dining room, they start their rampage. The two open fire, whereupon all the students in the dining room immediately panic and try to escape. Kaspar and Joosep kill all classmates who bullied them, including Anders. Kaspar accidentally shoots an eighth grader. Joosep tries to shoot Thea, but is prevented from doing so by Kaspar, who wants to let her live. When they have little ammunition, Joosep and Kaspar want suicide commit. Both of them hold a pistol to their own temples and count to three. However, only Joosep pulls the trigger on his pistol and kills himself. Kaspar decides to stay alive. You can now hear Kaspar's voice off-screen, saying the sentence three times: “I'm not dying. Defying you. "

background

In his cinema debut, Ilmar Raag cast the roles of young people with amateur actors, and Klass was also the first cinema production for the artistic director, the cameraman and the composer . Raag called Klass a no-budget film . The location of the school scenes was Tallinna 32. Keskkool . The film was released in Estonia on March 16, 2007, with Amrion and Eesti Televisioon involved in the production . In Germany, Klass is distributed by MFA Filmdistribution .

Klass was Estonia's submission for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2008 Academy Awards , but was not nominated.