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Boarding School

Original title: Leidenschaftliche Blümchen
  • 1978
  • R
  • 1h 38m
IMDb RATING
4.7/10
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Nastassja Kinski in Boarding School (1978)
Comedy

This film tells the story about a group of girls at an exclusive German girls boarding school. Across the lake is an exclusive boys boarding school...This film tells the story about a group of girls at an exclusive German girls boarding school. Across the lake is an exclusive boys boarding school...This film tells the story about a group of girls at an exclusive German girls boarding school. Across the lake is an exclusive boys boarding school...

  • Director
    • André Farwagi
  • Writers
    • Paul Nicholas
    • Laura Black
  • Stars
    • Nastassja Kinski
    • Gerry Sundquist
    • Stefano D'Amato
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    4.7/10
    641
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • André Farwagi
    • Writers
      • Paul Nicholas
      • Laura Black
    • Stars
      • Nastassja Kinski
      • Gerry Sundquist
      • Stefano D'Amato
    • 16User reviews
    • 4Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 nomination total

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    Nastassja Kinski
    Nastassja Kinski
    • Deborah Collins
    Gerry Sundquist
    Gerry Sundquist
    • Frederick Irving Benjamin Sinclair
    Stefano D'Amato
    • Plumpudding
    Gabriele Blum
    • Cordelia
    Sean Chapman
    Sean Chapman
    • Rodney
    Véronique Delbourg
    • Marie-Louise
    Nigel Greaves
    • Carlos
    Marion Kracht
    Marion Kracht
    • Jane
    A.Z. Markus
    Carolin Ohrner
    Carolin Ohrner
    • Gabi
    Kurt Raab
    Kurt Raab
    • Fletcher
    Peter Schmidt Pawloff
    • John
    Fabiana Udenio
    Fabiana Udenio
    • Gina
    Alwy Becker
    Alwy Becker
    Alexandra Bogojevic
    Hildegard Busse
    Hildegard Busse
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      Hertha von Walther
      Hertha von Walther
      • Director
        • André Farwagi
      • Writers
        • Paul Nicholas
        • Laura Black
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      going2mountains

      I saw this movie and loved it!

      I have seen this movie a number of times and enjoyed it. It was filmed in the 70's so its doesn't have the film quality of today, but its still good. I thought it was funny. I would love to have a copy of it to keep because I haven't seen it in a few years. I think its important to remember that it was filmed years and years ago in another country. The actors obviously spoke in a European language so the American version has other voices speaking English. Its a cute movie and I think we can all relate to that time in our lives when we were exploring sex and love. I think some people would have liked more nudity. As I recall there are a lot of above the waist views, but not much else. Enjoy!
      9LibertadBGreen

      Boarding School Fantasy

      I love this movie! I love it because it's such an excellent vehicle for Nastassja Kinski, Fabiana Udenio, and several other nubile young women, including Véronique Delbourg! Nastassja and Véronique would have been 19 at the time this movie was produced, Fabiana only 14, which may be why the two former appeared nude, but Fabiana did not.

      My favorite sequence in this movie was a striptease contest held in the attic of the boarding school. Nastassja's character, a student and the ring leader of the other girls who had decided to become prostitutes, hosted this event for some of the boys from an all male boarding school.

      Several of the girls performed stripteases during this competition. They employed a variety of gimmicks. One girl belly danced. Another performed a swan-like ballet. Fabiana stripped out of an alligator costume (but only down to a bikini) to the tune of "See Ya Later, Alligator!" My favorite, however, was performed by Véronique Delbourg, who did a dance with a banana skirt, similar to Josephine Baker's. She passed out some of these bananas, but not enough to appear bottomless!

      Nastassja did not compete, but she did treat one of the boys to a private, nude performance after the show. This is the most erotic footage of her I have ever seen!

      If you find Nastassja Kinski or Fabiana Udenio attractive, and would like to see them and other beautiful actresses at their sexiest, this is a "must see"!
      buffyfan-5

      worst movie i ever saw

      this movie was horrible. i cannot believe i wasted 100 minutes on THIS. my time would have been better spent if i had stared at the wall. i watch a lot of movies and have never seen anything this bad. im sorry for the producer, but im sure he REALLY needed the money if he chose to make this piece of garbage. save your money. if you want to see a movie like this, i suggest you record one and a half hours of trash rotting and watch that. itll be better than the movie
      lazarillo

      Dumb but sweet German sex comedy with a nubile Nastassia Kinski

      This is is one of a number of German films they used to show on late-night cable TV stations a lot in the late 70's and early 80's. But it's different than a lot of those other movies in that rather than being a sex-saturated, oom-pah-pah scrompfest, it's kind of coming-of-age film, not unlike the American teen comedies of the early 80's (it especially resembles the summer-camp classic "Little Darlings"). It's set at a Swiss boarding school where a bunch of girls decide, not only to lose their collective virginity to the boys at a school across the lake, but also to make money by charging them for it! (This is one movie I probably wouldn't expect a modern-day Hollywood re-make of). They have a surprising (and rather ridiculous) amount of trouble pulling this off though.

      Even though this movie opens with a close-up of the bare breast of one of the older, bustier girls, this is actually surprisingly innocent movie with very little actual sex in it. It's very dumb but kind of sweet. The main attraction,of course, was Natsassia Kinski, who plays the new girl at the school, who becomes the catalyst for the whole thing after she meets a handsome guy from the boys' school on the train. Except for the topless girl at the beginning, Kinski pretty much provides all the nudity and sex here. She does a memorable striptease (out of an alligator costume!) for the boys at a party, and her de-virginising is the only one that occurs on-screen. Although she was not very old here, Kinski is not particularly believable as an inexperienced virgin (perhaps because in real-life she'd already had torrid affairs with Roman Polanski and Milos Forman by this time).The only other cast member that might look familiar is Fabiana Udenio, the Italian-Argentinean beauty who later played "Alotta Fagina" in the original "Austin Powers". She has only a very small role here though (and, even by German standards, she was too young at the time to really participate in the sexual shenanigans).

      This movie doesn't compare to other late German-made cable fodder as a sex film (or to Kinski's truly erotic follow-up to this "Stay the Way You Are"). But although it has the disadvantage of being dubbed, it's really no dumber than most of the early 80's teen sex comedies (and it's one of the few that's about sexually curious girls rather than horny boys). It's worth seeing I guess.
      xenophile2002

      Not a great movie, but fun.

      The movie is one of those soft-core European things, and nobody would remember it today if it weren't for the fact that Nastassja Kinski is the star. The film was originally released in West Germany as Leidenschaftliche Blümchen, and has been shown under such titles as Passion Flower Hotel, Pretty School Girls, and Boarding School, which is how it is listed at IMDb and is the title it had when I saw it on late-night Cinemax (or was it Showtime? HBO?) back in the late 80s. Also has Fabiana Udenio who played "Alotta Fagina" in the first Austin Powers movie.

      In this movie, a group of students at an exclusive girls' boarding school become prostitutes. Well, sort of. They all want to lose their virginity, and when the new girl (Kinski) shows up and she isn't a virgin, she becomes the ringleader. She doesn't bother to tell them that her vast sexual experience consists of one, count it one time.

      There is a boys' school on the other side of the lake. Instead of doing the logical thing, i.e. contacting the boys to let them know that there is a near-by bevy of virgins in desperate need of deflowering, they decide they have to present themselves to the boys as being very experienced indeed, all of them. And who is more sexually experienced than a prostitute? So prostitutes they become, designating the boathouse as their brothel and buying lingerie and lanterns and costumes and such. The only reason they charge any money is because they'd be rather unconvincing prostitutes if they didn't.

      It all sounds very naughty, and the fact that the opening shot is of a barely-legal teenage tit doesn't make it seem any less so. But the movie is more sweet and funny than sleazy, and one can't help but chuckle at how difficult it is for anybody to get laid when everybody is so very, very willing. It is available on DVD in a package deal called "Hollywood Hotties," paired with Kill Cruise and Choices, two other movies nobody would remember if not for their soon-to-be-famous stars (Elizabeth Hurley and Demi Moore, respectively). Fabiana Udenio was about fourteen when Boarding School was made, but she stays covered up enough… just enough.

      One thing I find interesting is that the girls become prostitutes not because they want the *money,* but because they want the *status.* Not as much nudity as I remember; I guess I was easier to impress at nineteen.

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      • Trivia
        Marion Kracht was 14 during filming including a topless shower scene. But in a 2017 interview, she said she wasn't nude in this film and couldn't have been because her parents would never have allowed it. Yet the scene does exist.
      • Goofs
        The film takes place in the 1950s, yet the girls dance and hula-hoop to a 1968 recording of Bill Haley's "Rock-a-Beatin' Boogie."
      • Quotes

        Deborah Collins: Welcome to the Passion Flower Hotel.

      • Connections
        Referenced in Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession (2004)
      • Soundtracks
        See You Later Alligator
        Written by Bobby Charles

        Performed by Bill Haley and the Comets (as Bill Haley & His Comets)

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      • Release date
        • November 4, 1983 (United States)
      • Country of origin
        • West Germany
      • Language
        • German
      • Also known as
        • Preppy School Girls
      • Production company
        • Central Cinema Company Film (CCC)
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      • Gross US & Canada
        • $306,061
      • Gross worldwide
        • $306,061
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      • Runtime
        • 1h 38m(98 min)
      • Color
        • Color
      • Sound mix
        • Mono

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