“The Teacher’s Protest” is an 80 minutes documentary about teachers in 1942 occupied Norway. Teachers must join Nazi Teacher’s League and teach Nazi ideas in their classrooms. 8,000 of them write protest letters. They are threatened with salary withdrawal and the sack. Still they refuse. In a desperate attempt to break them, the Nazi government arrests 1000 male teachers and sends them to prison camps 300 miles above the Arctic Circle. The education system is in chaos and now the battle begins.
Jon Seal’s documentary weaves together archive footage, first-hand testimony and skillful animation of Herlov Amland’s poignant drawings to tell this gripping story to an international audience. The Teacher’s Protest is a sad, tender and uplifting documentary exploring a completely different kind of war story — an inspiring tale of passive resistance, where the heroes fight without weapons and still win.
A lead discussion to follow the screening.