

The motto for the 13-year-old narrator Bärbel Fielow, as far as school is concerned, must always be the opinion in class.
Acting
Cornelia Voss's restrained, watchful performance carries every frame.
Direction
Gunter Friedrich's patient observation of institutional absurdity.

Director
Gunter Friedrich
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
DEFA films of this era often smuggled critique through children's stories, bypassing stricter adult-content censors.
The title's grammatical oddity mirrors Bärbel's fractured identity—'Ich' (I) interrupted, then 'nothing for a while.'
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