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One of the best of the "schulmadchen-report" series
lazarillo29 March 2013
Although it remains saddled with this, now pretty politically incorrect, English-language title, this was actually the seventh film in long-running German "schulmadchen-report" series, and it is, believe it or not, one of the best of its ilk. It has a decent frame story for once as it begins with the police raiding a brothel that employs teenage girls. One by one, the girls are brought before the magistrate to tell the sordid story of how they each came to be there.

One girl started out using her sexual wiles to get her male classmates to do things for her, but things swiftly spun out of control. Another girl posed as a hitchhiker and used her sexual wiles to lure adult men into a trap where they would be mugged by a gang of male friends, but things take a darker turn for this hapless fraulein as well. The sexiest stories meanwhile involve a girl who decides to lose her virginity to a friend of her father's, taking off everything but her "Velma"-from-"Scooby Doo" glasses and doing him in every position imaginable. There's also a girl who disguises herself as her mother to seduce her (obviously very dimwitted) teacher. Then there's the usual Luigi" story--the early "schulmadchen-report" films featured rubber-faced actor Michael Shriener as a comic buffoon, but he was eventually replaced by a much less funny, ridiculously horny Italian stereotype named "Luigi", whose comic misadventures here involve he and three comely frauleins running around a luxury hotel naked.

As usual the stories veer from sordid melodrama to screwball comedy and back again, but this film lacks some of the TRULY disturbing material found in some of the earlier films of the series (rape, incest, etc.). The actresses here are almost entirely unknowns since the more famous ones such as Christina Lindberg or Ingrid Steeger had moved on to other things by this time. They are actually a quite ATTRACTIVE lot though, neither looking as pimply and corpulent as many sex actresses did in the 1970's, nor being the peroxide-job, plastic surgery disasters associated with these kind of films today. The good-looking (naturally pretty) girls and fast-moving, if not always consistently entertaining, vignettes are the main strengths of this series in general, and they are especially effective here.
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2/10
The most romantic entry?
Horst_In_Translation26 April 2015
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The title suggesting that sex and relationships only work if love is involved could let you think so. But it's really not the case. This is the mid entry (7/13) from the "Schulmädchen" series depicting sexual adventures of young girls who explore their sexuality for the first time. It runs for slightly under 90 minutes and has court proceedings as the framework for all the different stories around a prostitution ring. There is always a pseudo-educational aspect to these films and here it is the courtroom scenes. The film's director is Ernst Hofbauer once again and, as always, it is written by Günther Heller.

In my opinion, this is one of the weakest entries to the series, certainly inferior to the first three films. If you are interested in the genre, you may have seen Christina Lindberg in other projects already. Usually, these films have no taboos at all (except male nudity), but here we finally have one: church. One story is about a priest who helps one of the girls who prostitutes herself and I wondered if they will give him a juicy sex plot as well, but finally they did not. they touched incest, group rape and many other controversial areas already, but this one they did not dare. And there are other changes. Like they got rid of the street interviews or how we see an elderly woman in the courthouse and usually, in the other films, old people complain about how naughty and disturbed today's (i.e. the 1970's) youth is, but she tells a story about how back when she was young, they were exactly the same. It would be interesting to hear their opinions today in 2015 as now they are the seniors and we are the young ones. Or our opinions on the issue in 40 years from now. Anyway, not a good movie. Not recommended.
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8/10
Enjoyable lowbrow romp
Woodyanders1 April 2011
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A bunch of lovely teenage schoolgirls work at a secret brothel where they have sex with high paying older men. After the girls are arrested for prostitution, several of the ladies reveal at the court trail how they wound up working at said brothel: Helga gets guys to do her homework in exchange for sex, a horny married ice cream parlor vendor promises three lasses free ice cream for a year if they all do just what you think with him, enticing hitchhiker Monika (delicious brunette Sonja Jeannine) lures men to a remote barn so she can rob them of their money, brainy virgin Karla (sweet'n'petite honey Deborah Ralls) convinces her father's business partner to deflower her, an uptight Prussian teacher encounters rowdy Bavarian students in his classroom, and smitten student Gaby (delectable slender blonde Marianne Dupont) pretends to be her mother so she can make love to a teacher she has a crush on. Naturally, director Ernst Hofbauer and writer Gunther Heller deliver plenty of tasty female nudity, steamy soft-core sex, dialogue loaded with hilariously raunchy double entendres, and an admittedly crude, yet still amusing sense of brash'n'bawdy humor (the segment about the ice cream vendor in particular is an absolute hoot!). Best of all, the gals are all smokin' hot all natural beauties who aren't the least bit bashful about baring their fine bodies with pleasing frequency. Moreover, this film is so cheerfully silly and good-natured that it's never offensive or distasteful. Gert Wilden's groovy swingin' score hits the right-on funky kitschy spot as well. Nice dirty fun.
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