There have been enough movies about teachers facing challenging classroom situations and unsympathetic staff and school board members to comprise a film genre of its own. And it is not limited to just classic flicks from Hollywood like Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939), Bright Road (1953) The Blackboard Jungle (1955), Up the Down Staircase (1967), To Sir, With Love (1967), Stand and Deliver (1988) and Dead Poets’ Society (1989). Other countries have produced their own cinematic touchstones on the subject such as the U.K. (The Browning Version [1951], If… [1968], The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie [1969]), France (Zero for Conduct [1933], The Class [2008]), Japan (Twenty-Four Eyes [1955] or Russia (Village Teacher [1947]). All of these address numerous issues like juvenile delinquency, racism, illiteracy and the value of mentorship but few, if any, have presented the complex problems facing Karla, the heroine of Herrmann Zschoche’s 1965 East German drama which was extremely controversial in its day.