Schule

The movie "Schule" (School) shows a part of the life of a small group of students, enjoying the last days before graduation.

It happens that I visited the movie with some friends of mine from school and we had to agree that the movie did in fact catch the feeling we had at the time of graduation. To every character in the movie, whether it be the A-student or the "loverboy", we could remember the exact counterpart in our own class.

But also the contrast between feeling free and the uncertainity what will happen after graduation and where all the friends will go was shown in the film.

I think the movie is a realistic portrait of this time, on the one hand making one laugh and on the other hand saddening us.

First of all, if you're a foreign student planning on visiting a German school for a year, you absolutely need to see this movie.

In a funny, yet absolutely credible manner you'll get an inside into the hearts and minds of German students on their last days of school. You will encounter all kinds of characters from the pedantic nerd having is first bong (/girl) to the nonchalant, funny fat guy struggling to get his high-school-degree at all.

Throughout the entire movie, I was remembered on the "good old times" where there was nothing to worry about but everything to dream of. It represents the social aspects of school and friendship so accurate that there is hardly anything I could criticize here.

The story is kind of simple, as it portrays a short period of time and a special feeling, where logic and accuracy aren't necessarily the most important aspects. If I want to mentally travel back in time where I sat on the grass with my buddies just drinking beer, having fun, smoking pot, talking about love and our future - I only need to watch "Schule" to get my dose.

However I cannot help but recognize that there are many parallels to Richard Linklater's movie "Dazed & Confused" which is basically the same story set in the United States 1970's. If you watch both movies, you will see that "Schule" was most likely inspired by this masterpiece, which it simply cannot beat.

Nevertheless, "Schule" is definitely worth watching if you understand German properly or if you're simply interested in how high school life actually looks like in a country which many believe consists of goose step marching robots. Far from it.

Honestly, this is one the best German films - if not the best one - that I saw! No comparison to the Hollywood teeny movies like "American Pie". Schule is not really a comedy. It lags of jokes that nobody needs. So there is an overall very impressing and serious atmosphere, which is supported by the proper Soundtrack.

Concerning the characters and friendships in Schule I would suggest to compare it to some slayer strips like "I Know What You Did Last Summer". The only difference is: In Schule nobody is killed :)

It lets you think on where you appear in the film. What You have done the same, and what different from the characters.

That makes it very pleasant for me, and I guess for everyone else who got his ABI in the last few years.

ok, this is not some kind of masterpiece, it doesn't introduce a new era, it has no new ideas. nevertheless, it is one of the funniest films i have seen. i'm a fan of axel stein (the fat, funny guy who kinda always plays himself) and i have to say: if he's in a film, it must be good. and the last review (cliché & unrealism) is not really true. the actors are good. there are people in germany who smoke wed all the time, also at school (i'm a bit like this too). and: the jokes are really good. i laughed the whole time because they're just ludicrous. i recommend this movie to everyone who hasn't yet forgot high school and is looking for a funny movie. it's especially good to watch it with friends, because if you talk about i afterwards, it's twice as much fun. a++ one of my fav's

As I watched this film the first time, i never heard of it before. And I was quite surprised! It has the same boring and quiet surrounding like every other German film, but there isn't any other film reminding me on my youth like this one! Someone who has never been a young student nowadays would hardly understand the message of the film.

One of the first thing I noticed: The producers invented a completely new town witch doesn't exist in Germany! Kerkweiler! They made new license plates abbreviations (KER) witch doesn't exist, they made a new Kreiswehrersatzamt (Military Recruting Office) on a mail header, and all this details only for not finding out where this film acts! So EVERY German can identify with it!

It's a good film witch I can only recommend! The main actor Daniel Brühl isn't one of Germany's hope in film industries future because he is a bad actor!