Baruto no Gakuen

Baruto no Gakuen
Directed by	Masanobu Deme
Produced by	Noriko Koyanagi
Starring	Ken Matsudaira Jun Kunimura Hiroshi Abe Bruno Ganz Oliver Bootz Kostja Ullmann
Music by	Shin-ichiro Ikebe
Editing by	Motomu Furuta
Distributed by	Toei Company
Release date(s)	June 17, 2006
Running time	134 minutes
Country	Japan Germany
Language	Japanese

Baruto no Gakuen (バルトの楽園^?) is a Japanese film released in 2006 and based on the true story of the Bandō Prisoner of War camp in World War I. It depicts the friendship of the German POWs with the director of the camp and local residents at the stage of Naruto, Tokushima Prefecture in Japan.

See also

• German-Japanese relations

External links

• Official web site (Japanese)
• Ode an die Freude (German)