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A very good educational movie for teenagers. It resembles Soviet films - the same glorification of labor and the communal and criticism of individualism. The national -socialist goal of classless society is indirectly touched upon - everyone is equal and one family, regardless of social status. Theo was not promoted to the next year due to poor academic performance despite his father's clout and status. One of the apprentices plays a violin – resembles a character usually reserved in the soviet movies for a Jewish boy. He even looks a bit like a Jew.