Schoolgirl Report 11 (3 Stars)

This is the 11th film in the German Schoolgirl Report series. Ernst Hofbauer returns as director, but he's not able to rescue the film from its poor script. It seems like the producer/writer Wolf C. Hartwig was desperately trying to do something different, but in the process he was making logical errors. Maybe mistakes had been made in previous films, but nowhere else are they as obvious as in this film.

The outer frame of the film is a radio show. Four people have been invited to the studio to discuss laws for the protection of young people, whether they're sufficient or need to be improved. The four people are a youth psychologist, a housewife, a school headmaster and a police inspector. As is to be expected after watching the previous ten installments, they sit and tell each other stories. Unfortunately the stories are irrelevant to the topic.

1. The police inspector talks about Martina, the 17-year-old daughter of a colleague. She was struggling with her schoolwork, especially Mathematics and French. One of the boys in her class helps her learn, but they also become lovers. After a few months he dumps her for another girl, so she takes an overdose and kills herself.

2. The psychologist talks about an 18-year-old girl called Regine. She was also having problems in school, so her parents hired a private teacher to give her lessons. Then she accuses the teacher of having raped her, as we see in a nested story. After listening to her the prosecutor interviews the teacher, who claims that she had tried to seduce him, but he had refused her advances. The prosecutor immediately believes the teacher. Of course. Men stick together. But fortunately this is proved to be true when a medical examination reveals that Regine is still a virgin.

3. The recording engineers talk about their own experiences in the next room. Gitte talks about her first time, when she was 16. Together with her friend Gabi they went to meet two boys, Hansi and Traugott, in a cabin in the woods. The girls thought the boys were experienced, the boys thought the girls were experienced, but in truth all four were virgins and scared. The two couples make love very awkwardly, but in the process they knock over a shelf containing tins of paint which fall on their naked bodies. Amusing.

4. The headmaster tells the others about Michaela, a good student whose marks had recently been getting worse. When he returns home one day he finds a suicide note from her in his letterbox. He rushes after her and narrowly manages to save her from jumping in front of a train. She explains why she was doing this in a nested story. One day she found a 100-Mark note (about $60) on the floor. After picking it up she was surrounded by three bikers who threatened to report her to the police. First they had sex with her, then they sold her as a prostitute to rich men and Italians. Seeing no way out of the dilemma she had decided to end her life, but the headmaster helps her to stand up to the bikers and report them to the police.

5. The mother is the last to tell her tale, about her daughter, Heidi. On Heidi's 18th birthday her friends visited her and decide to help her lose her virginity. After telling each other about their first times (nested stories), one of them invites Heidi to her house to meet her cousin Achim. They lock them in a room and say they won't let them out until Heidi is no longer a virgin. Achim doesn't want to go along with it, so he covers the keyhole and together they make sounds like they're having sex. After this Achim walks Heidi home. He confesses that he loves her, and they make love.

Overall an average film, that doesn't live up to the quality of the previous installments. The comedy sketch with the paint-splattered virgins is the film's highlight.

I've already reviewed the first ten Schoolgirl Report films. You can find links to them in my alphabetical list of posts.