12-19 year-old
Young audience
School

Mit der Faust in die Welt schlagen

Constanze KLAUE
Female Director 2024 110 min Germany
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Synopsis

Youth in the shadow of the GDR

In 2006 Saxony, brothers Philipp and Tobi move into an unfinished house with their struggling parents. With few stable adult figures and limited prospects, the boys are left to navigate school, home, and the surrounding countryside on their own. As Philipp begins spending time with a group of older boys, their bravado and xenophobic violence give him a sense of adventure and belonging.

A remarkably assured coming-of-age story grounded in the verdant landscapes and simmering political tensions of post-reunification East Germany. Constanze Klaue’s confident debut is a prescient study of how ideology can form in conditions of social dislocation, long before it is named.

Cast/Avec

  • Anton FRANKE
  • Camille Loup MOLTZEN
  • Anja SCHNEIDER

Screenplay

  • based on the book “Punching the World” by Lukas Rietzschel 

Cinematographer

  • Florian Brückner

Sound

  • Paul Rischer

Music

  • PC Nackt

Production

  • gabriele SIMON
  • Martin HEISLER
  • Alexaner WADOUH
  • Roxana RICHTERS

Age classification

  • 12+

Screenings

Monday 09 March 2026 09:00
Lieux : Ciné Le Paris
Audio : German
Subtitles :
Screening : School Screening
Tuesday 10 March 2026 08:45
Lieux : Ciné Utopia
Audio : German
Subtitles :
Screening : School Screening

Critics

“A fine ensemble cast is just one token of the care that clearly lies behind this empathetic film.”
Lee Marshall Publication Screen International 18/02/2025

Constanze KLAUE

Constanze KLAUE
Constanze KLAUE

Constanze Klaue is a Berlin-based filmmaker and author who studied literature and jazz before training in directing and screenwriting at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. Her graduation film, Lynchen 92, was awarded Best Mid-Length Film at the Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival in 2020, and her novel Ausgerechnet Mops! Won the Baumhaus Boje-B. Water Media Prize. Mit der Faust in die Welt schlagen is her feature debut.

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Filmography

  • Punching the World 2025
  • Lychen 92 (short) 2020
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