Schoolgirl Report 9 (4¼ Stars)

With the new director Walter Boos new ideas are flowing into the immensely successful Schoolgirl Report series. In stark contrast to the previous installment, the humorous situations are kept to a minimum. To match the new style Gert Wilden's music is more discreet, disappearing into the background in most scenes. The system of nested story-telling frames is repeatedly used in this film, more often than in the Ernst Hofbauer films. It's also worth noting that the girls in this film are older. It has to do with girls in their final year at school, which means they are all 18 or 19.

The film starts with a group of youngsters leaving a party. Despite being drunk they leave in two cars. They drive at speeds up to 160 kmh (100 mph) on narrow country roads, the cars bumping one another for fun. For fun? I wouldn't do that however drunk I might be. One car is forced off the road and hits a tree. The other rolls down a slope. We then move to a police station where we see two police officers discussing the case. Miraculously, nobody was killed. There are only two severe injuries, the rest of the teenagers have escaped with minor scratches.

1. The policemen discuss the teenagers that they have interviewed. The first is Petra, 18, divorced. She fell in love with Horst, a car mechanic, and married him in a registry office. But things went bad from the start. They spent their honeymoon in a guest house run by Rosl Mayr, who spoilt the romance by telling them, in great detail, about how her husband had been too drunk to have sex with her until the third night of their marriage. After that Rosl kept walking in and interrupting the newlyweds in bed. "I have to change the towels. Just pretend I'm not here". When they returned home things were no better. Horst complained when Petra couldn't go out because she was busy with her homework. Petra complained when Horst couldn't come home because he was doing overtime. Total incompatibility. They got divorced, but when they left the court they decided to go to a party together "for old times sake". Yes, this is the party we saw the teenagers leaving at the beginning.

2. Tessi, 19, was at the party with her boyfriend Paul, who was played by German actor Heiner Lauterbach in his first ever film role. The policemen talk about a previous party Tessi had gone to. Lilo's parents were away for the weekend, so she planned to have an orgy with free sex. Those wild teenagers! Paul had a crush on Tessi and didn't want her to go to Lilo's party. Tessi insisted, so Paul went to the party as well and put sleeping pills in the punch. When everyone passed out Paul carried Tessi home. In a nested story Tessi tells us what happened when Lilo's parents came home and discovered the naked bodies lying everywhere.

3. Elke goes to the hospital to visit her friend Susanne who is lying injured after the car accident. At the hospital she meets Susanne's step-father, and we hear about how she had first met him. She visited Susanne at home and told Susanne how she had had sex with her boyfriend Albert (a nested story). While telling the story she was undressing Susanne and stroking her. The step-father walked in, said that what they were doing was disgusting and forbade Elke to come to the house again. After Elke left the father blackmailed Susanne into having sex with him, saying he would tell her mother about her lesbian exploits if she didn't agree.

4. Katya is a girl who lives with her aunt while she is going to school. She was invited home for her parents' wedding anniversary. The father wanted to impress Katya by being modern, listening to rock music and dancing. Unfortunately he didn't quite get it, and he was listening to 50's rock and roll. He also wanted to be anti-authoritarian. Katya said that she wanted a real father who acted like a father and was prepared to give her a slap whenever she needed it.

5. Achim, 18, is lying injured in hospital. His girlfriend Claudia visits him and blames herself for his injuries. If she had been at the party instead of staying at home the accident would never have happened, she claims. During their relationship they never had sex. Whenever it came close to sex she remembered an incident when she had seen a flasher by the lake (repeated nested stories). After an argument Achim decided to go to the party by himself.

6. The sixth story wraps up the loose ends from the previous five vignettes. We finally find out more about Albert, who appeared briefly in each of the other stories to invite the teenagers to the party. Monika is a girl who does badly in school. Her boyfriend in Karl is unemployed, and because he used to be self-employed he receives no unemployment pay. Albert is the junior boss in his father's company. Albert invited them to the party, so Monika thought that if she arrived early she could seduce Albert and ask him to give Karl a job. At the party she couldn't go through with it because she didn't want to be unfaithful to Karl, but Albert is a good guy and promised to give Karl a job interview anyway. After the party they left in the two cars and we see the accident again.

The policemen discuss the moral state of schoolgirls today. The younger policeman says that they all deserve a spanking, and it would never happen in his family. The older policeman thinks that parents should be more understanding. Then they are interrupted by Christina, the 15-year-old daughter of the younger policeman, who is completely drunk. He takes her to his car while the older policeman laughs.