No More School

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.

To be honest, this movie just gets the vibe of Germany's upper schools around the millenium. I know, cause I was there.

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...

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.