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.

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!

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.

hi i saw the movie a few times and i m German in in some part is it in Germany like the movie has shown is very easy to get drugs and alcohol is no problem in Germany you are allowed to drink beer at the age of 16 and hard alcohol like ron oder vodka . . . at the age of 18 but its quiet easy to get hard stuff under 18 u go into a gas station give the guy 10 bugs he told s you ti hide the bottle and done in this movie are some cliché 's right and a love story is in it but its with one of Germany best comedy newcomer Axel Stein he plays Dirk (the fat guy ) and its not like there are no ugly girls there are and some of the guys in the movie are losers i gave the movie a 3 because its was just a little production and no great effects if u have nothing better to do watch the movie and build your own opinion

In fact they made this movie at exactly the school i went to, when i still was a pupil. So i might not really be neutral =). when they shoot it, i wasn't really interested, but later when i saw it, it was just great fun! Not just because i knew nearly every extra boys and girls you can see in the film (the second fat guy who does the fart in class was actually a good friend of mine), but i could in fact identify myself with the film. All these characters appearing in "schule" we had in our classes. Even Stone, the guy who left school years ago and still hangs around. Partying (and at least for some of us the pot-smoking) the hole day and doing as few as possible for school to still pass the exams - that's the way school was! For me this movie is more than just another funny movie. It's a kind beauty memory...