I watched "Schoolgirl Reports" for research purposes. Hahaha, yeah right! That's probably what every pervert says when he (or she) is caught gazing at erotic or adult film entertainment. Most likely, that sad excuse also formed the main reason why the clever director and producers disguised the film as a fake documentary or so-called educational film. Whether today or in the early 70s, each and every viewer simply wants to stare at slim and perky naked teen bodies and drool over their very first sexual escapades (usually with much older, uglier and fatter men). "Schoolgirl Reports" was unimaginably popular in Europe when it came out. So popular that it got programmed in big city theaters and spawned 12 sequels. Twelve!?! I guess the huge popularity can only be explained with a cliché. Different times... In 1970, free pornography wasn't all over the Internet - heck, there wasn't even "The Internet" - and the only hope for people to check out boobs, and maybe a little of bush, were films like these.
9 Reviews
Somewhere between porn and education
blumdeluxe19 June 2017
Warning: Spoilers
This movie is a 70s-production from Germany, dealing with the sexuality of adolescents and how it changed compared to their parent's. It mixes replayed examples with street interviews and tries to pledge for more open views towards the topic.
The film itself of course isn't a masterpiece. Most of the examples seem to have been exaggerated to create a more scandalous atmosphere and the dialogues are an art form for itself. There's not much tension or anything that keeps you looking and I can tell that you don't miss anything important if you just skip parts of it.
The reason why I still grant this one a rather decent rating is that I generally like the message. Sexuality is a topic where you just have to accept that some things change and while you can discuss each of this developments critically, it can help to be less scandalizing and more open minded when it comes to the concerns of the next generation. Unfortunately, I can't really decide whether this is really a message the movie wanted to carry on or if the focus was more on showing nude bodies. I'd guess on the second one..
The film itself of course isn't a masterpiece. Most of the examples seem to have been exaggerated to create a more scandalous atmosphere and the dialogues are an art form for itself. There's not much tension or anything that keeps you looking and I can tell that you don't miss anything important if you just skip parts of it.
The reason why I still grant this one a rather decent rating is that I generally like the message. Sexuality is a topic where you just have to accept that some things change and while you can discuss each of this developments critically, it can help to be less scandalizing and more open minded when it comes to the concerns of the next generation. Unfortunately, I can't really decide whether this is really a message the movie wanted to carry on or if the focus was more on showing nude bodies. I'd guess on the second one..
How it all began
Horst_In_Translation25 April 2016
Warning: Spoilers
Ernst Hofbauer's "Schulmädchen-Report" is a German movie from over 45 years ago. It was a major success, not only financially, as everybody talked about this movie. Is it more than soft-core porn? Yes and no, I would say. The core story is about a young woman who has sex with the school bus driver. Unluckily for her, she gets caught and it is discussed if she will be expelled. I found it interesting that, not once, there was talk about the bus driver possibly taking advantage of her. In-between, there are more stories about fairly controversial topics, such as one man having sex with several girls, pregnancy, first time sex and even rape. I guess the fact that there were really no taboos in here is a major reason why it became such a famous film and why they made so many sequels afterward. Friedrich von Thun is easily the most famous cast member here, he went on to have a long career that lasts until today. There is one major problem with this film though: As progressive as the message it gives may be, the way we get to this message is not convincing. Here I am talking about the script and, to a lesser extent, the acting. Both areas needed to be a lot better in order to let me recommend this. As a consequence, I believe this is really, like so many other (soft-core) porn movies, only worth watching if you're horny. Otherwise, I give it a thumbs down. By the way, there are several version out there. The one I saw is probably the shortest at only 77 minutes.
Sleazy film that seems strangely innocent today
lazarillo22 August 2007
After a prologue in which one "schulmadchen" (basically a German high school girl)is caught having sex, concerned parents, teachers, and other students get together for a meeting, and this movie turns into a (mostly fake) documentary with a lot of talking heads and sexual scenes, ranging from innocuous nudity to softcore groping, being acted out as "illustration". Obviously, this movie uses the old exploitation trick of pretending to morally condemn or express liberal social concern over the same lurid subject that the movie itself is cheerfully exploiting. I'm sure when this movie was showing in a German theaters, there were a lot more dirty old men in raincoats than "concerned parents" in the audience(and any concerned parents that WERE there probably would have been well-advised to wear raincoats as well). I'm also sure that the makers of this, if interviewed today, would freely admit that the moralizing was just a lot of phony-baloney to ameliorate the (obviously very stupid) censors.
This movie seems pretty sordid on paper, but I actually found it strangely innocent compared to today. We STILL have this faux moralistic/secretly lecherous mentality today. Much of our current entertainment media, for instance, seems focused on following around under-age or just very immature young girls, morally clucking at their misdeeds while salivating over every sordid detail. And the more "legitimate" the medium and the more serious and shrill the moralizing, the more disgusting the hypocrisy. Moreover, Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, etc. are (presumably) real people. The actresses in this movie are obviously not real "schulmadchen" (unless there was something strange in the German water back then, I'd guess most of these actresses had long since put their own school uniforms on mothballs). They not only don't look underage, but they don't act like real women of any age--they're fantasy figures like a twenty-five-year-old stripper with fake breasts dressed in a Catholic school uniform.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying its necessarily healthy for the media to exploit even "fantasy teens" like with this film (or the "Porkies"-style teen sex comedies of my own adolescence), but given how much we let REAL teenagers be exploited today. . . well, I just wouldn't worry about it too much.
This movie seems pretty sordid on paper, but I actually found it strangely innocent compared to today. We STILL have this faux moralistic/secretly lecherous mentality today. Much of our current entertainment media, for instance, seems focused on following around under-age or just very immature young girls, morally clucking at their misdeeds while salivating over every sordid detail. And the more "legitimate" the medium and the more serious and shrill the moralizing, the more disgusting the hypocrisy. Moreover, Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, etc. are (presumably) real people. The actresses in this movie are obviously not real "schulmadchen" (unless there was something strange in the German water back then, I'd guess most of these actresses had long since put their own school uniforms on mothballs). They not only don't look underage, but they don't act like real women of any age--they're fantasy figures like a twenty-five-year-old stripper with fake breasts dressed in a Catholic school uniform.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying its necessarily healthy for the media to exploit even "fantasy teens" like with this film (or the "Porkies"-style teen sex comedies of my own adolescence), but given how much we let REAL teenagers be exploited today. . . well, I just wouldn't worry about it too much.
Oh those wacky Germans
movieman_kev26 April 2007
A school advisory board gather to decide the fate of one of it's girl students who was found having sex with her bus driver in this German soft-core porn. Filmed as a faux-documentary (with some real life and some faked interviews interspersed between the little stories of various girls gone 'wild'), the main purpose is to titillate more than educate, and it does it's job adequately if not particularly well. This was the first in a LONG line (11 sequels!!) of "Schoolgirl Reports", and while it was enjoyable enough, I didn't see anything that special as to warrant one sequel much less that many. Just chalk it up to a case of "oh those wacky Germans". For a better film along the same lines, in my opinion, you should catch 1978's "Fantasm"
Notorious German blockbuster from 1970
Ehrgeiz31 December 2015
There was a cultural phenomenon in Germany in the 1970ies and early 1980ies which everybody wants to forget - low key sex movies, hundreds off them, which fared well at the box office. "Schulmädchenreport" (Schoolgirl report) was not the first one of them, but the most successful one. It had 7 million viewers when it came out, which is often the number the most successful movies have in a year.
Schulmädchenreport spawned of 12 sequels and dozens more of copies. For me, it delves in the "so-bad-its-good" area. Every movie of this kind has its own perks, here its his fake authenticity and morality. All school girl movies were produced by Wolf Hartwig, written by Günther Heller and most of them were directed by Ernst Hofbauer. These three may have been some of the most cynical hacks in the movie world, thats why I give it three stars.
Schulmädchenreport starts off, as most of the sequels, pretending to be a documentary about what school girls want sexually. The main plot borrows from "12 angry men": On a field trip, school girl renate sneaks away from the group to do it with the bus driver. She gets caught naked and the headmaster, parents and teacher gather together to decide if she has to be kicked from the school. All talk against her, but dad an psychologist Mr. Bernauer steps in... and the smut begins. Bernauer, who is supposed to be a 1970ies liberal, but looks up to his huge pornstache exactly like that kind of dad who would vanish at night to go the porn cinema, tries to persuade the parents to keep Renate at the school by telling them various sex stories... Now various little episodes with school girls doing it come up, intermingled by supposedly real street interviews. The interviewer is unintentionally hilarious when he asks women in a harsh and strict voice if they masturbate and the likes.
The documentary approach was surely partly done by the producers to avoid censorship, and they were kind of a successful in this. But it also added to the cinematic treachery they pulled of - in a successful way to appeal to many target groups. By pretending it to be real stories and to understand what young women want, they surely got some hippie free love advocates in. But they also catered simultaneously to the middle-aged men of the type who usually look sex movies in cinemas.
Nearly all school girls here are depicted as horny and insatiable man traps. Visually the movies were kind of harmless, showing only full female nudity. The hilarity today ensues from the bullsh*t the producers wanted to tell us for real about the backstories of the sex scenes. Many of them are crass and disturbing. It starts off with the first story where a 15-year-old girl sleeps with her stepdad and lets us know in her commentary that she seduced him with 12. The common theme is that nearly all of the schoolgirls hook up with older or much older men, like that is what hey do. In the crassest episode this is even adressed verbally. Here, a school girl who is a virgin has an older boyfriend who tries to blackmail her emotionally into having sex with him - she still refuses. Fine so far, isn't it? But this is "Schulmädchenreport". Her friend turns up and tells her a long story which begins with an attempted rape (with the dubious statement: "I don't think a man can ever rape a woman if she does not want it a little"). Later she is focused by some lesbians and does it unenthusiastic with them, so a lesbo scene could be shoehorned in. Normal sex want work also, so she gives her girlfriend the advice to do it with older men like she does now. And the virgin goes back to their demanding boyfriend and does it with him. So far, so camp. The main plot ends totally in this wake: Renate can stay at the school and it ends with a kind of disturbing shot where the daddys bring their daughters home holding hands.
Schulmädchenreport spawned of 12 sequels and dozens more of copies. For me, it delves in the "so-bad-its-good" area. Every movie of this kind has its own perks, here its his fake authenticity and morality. All school girl movies were produced by Wolf Hartwig, written by Günther Heller and most of them were directed by Ernst Hofbauer. These three may have been some of the most cynical hacks in the movie world, thats why I give it three stars.
Schulmädchenreport starts off, as most of the sequels, pretending to be a documentary about what school girls want sexually. The main plot borrows from "12 angry men": On a field trip, school girl renate sneaks away from the group to do it with the bus driver. She gets caught naked and the headmaster, parents and teacher gather together to decide if she has to be kicked from the school. All talk against her, but dad an psychologist Mr. Bernauer steps in... and the smut begins. Bernauer, who is supposed to be a 1970ies liberal, but looks up to his huge pornstache exactly like that kind of dad who would vanish at night to go the porn cinema, tries to persuade the parents to keep Renate at the school by telling them various sex stories... Now various little episodes with school girls doing it come up, intermingled by supposedly real street interviews. The interviewer is unintentionally hilarious when he asks women in a harsh and strict voice if they masturbate and the likes.
The documentary approach was surely partly done by the producers to avoid censorship, and they were kind of a successful in this. But it also added to the cinematic treachery they pulled of - in a successful way to appeal to many target groups. By pretending it to be real stories and to understand what young women want, they surely got some hippie free love advocates in. But they also catered simultaneously to the middle-aged men of the type who usually look sex movies in cinemas.
Nearly all school girls here are depicted as horny and insatiable man traps. Visually the movies were kind of harmless, showing only full female nudity. The hilarity today ensues from the bullsh*t the producers wanted to tell us for real about the backstories of the sex scenes. Many of them are crass and disturbing. It starts off with the first story where a 15-year-old girl sleeps with her stepdad and lets us know in her commentary that she seduced him with 12. The common theme is that nearly all of the schoolgirls hook up with older or much older men, like that is what hey do. In the crassest episode this is even adressed verbally. Here, a school girl who is a virgin has an older boyfriend who tries to blackmail her emotionally into having sex with him - she still refuses. Fine so far, isn't it? But this is "Schulmädchenreport". Her friend turns up and tells her a long story which begins with an attempted rape (with the dubious statement: "I don't think a man can ever rape a woman if she does not want it a little"). Later she is focused by some lesbians and does it unenthusiastic with them, so a lesbo scene could be shoehorned in. Normal sex want work also, so she gives her girlfriend the advice to do it with older men like she does now. And the virgin goes back to their demanding boyfriend and does it with him. So far, so camp. The main plot ends totally in this wake: Renate can stay at the school and it ends with a kind of disturbing shot where the daddys bring their daughters home holding hands.
Perhaps shocking in 1970, rather quaint now
gridoon202411 January 2021
Dubious "documentary" on the sexual liberation of the German (female) youth, circa 1970. The "re-enacted" vignettes are about as credible as documentary work as the Italian "Mondo" films of the previous decade, though the interviews are probably genuine (for the most part). One pretty steamy masturbation scene, otherwise pretty tame stuff. It did lead, however, to one of the longest-running series in film history (!), so it must have touched a nerve at the time. ** out of 4.
The Schoolgirl Report 1 series:Part 1.
morrison-dylan-fan29 August 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Over the years I would get told by family friend Guy Morgan about a famous series of German Comedy films. Whilst I was able to find the third with English subtitles,the only other Reports I could find were ones with no subtitles. With Guy having passed away at just age 46 from a brain haemorrhage in March 2019,it felt so surprisingly to recently find the franchise with subtitles. Having heard so much about it from Guy,I opened the first report.
View on the film:
Undressed from the façade of being a educational documentary, director Ernst Hofbauer & cinematographer Klaus Werner neatly contrast the glossy frisky antics with half- real vox pops asking people on the street questions related to the next story (some of the answers of which get some strange glances from locals walking pass!)
Going on a school inspection, Hofbauer notes a saucy Comedy atmosphere, with the mischievous fit ladies, (all of whom are clearly adults) laughing at the moral high ground the church and teachers attempt to stand on, who Hofbauer brings down to earth with alluring close-ups of the ladies displaying their cheeky side.
Adapting Gunther Hunold's novel in the loosest way possible (thankfully), the screenplay by Gunther Heller keeps every tale in the anthology moving at a playfully snappy pace, from a bus driver parking up too close to a eager lady, to one proudly saying she had seduced her step dad (this would become a recurring theme in the series!)as she uses his pen to write out a schoolgirl report.
View on the film:
Undressed from the façade of being a educational documentary, director Ernst Hofbauer & cinematographer Klaus Werner neatly contrast the glossy frisky antics with half- real vox pops asking people on the street questions related to the next story (some of the answers of which get some strange glances from locals walking pass!)
Going on a school inspection, Hofbauer notes a saucy Comedy atmosphere, with the mischievous fit ladies, (all of whom are clearly adults) laughing at the moral high ground the church and teachers attempt to stand on, who Hofbauer brings down to earth with alluring close-ups of the ladies displaying their cheeky side.
Adapting Gunther Hunold's novel in the loosest way possible (thankfully), the screenplay by Gunther Heller keeps every tale in the anthology moving at a playfully snappy pace, from a bus driver parking up too close to a eager lady, to one proudly saying she had seduced her step dad (this would become a recurring theme in the series!)as she uses his pen to write out a schoolgirl report.
Good Start
Michael_Elliott26 February 2008
Schoolgirl Report #1 (1970)
*** (out of 4)
Mondo style documentary was the first of thirteen films that were produced in German during a ten year span. These films were the most popular but there were countless other rips including Jess Franco's hilarious Virgin Report. In the film, a schoolgirl is caught having sex with her bus driver and it's up to the parents league to determine whether she should be kicked out of school. In the meeting is a psychiatrist who studies the behaviors of teenage girls and he tells the parents what their daughters are really doing. There are a variety of stories told in the film including a daughter getting caught by her mother masturbating, a girl thinking about losing her virginity and a young girl seducing her teacher among others. These types of mondo documentaries are pretty fun and this one here delivers on the nudity and sex, which is probably what make these studies so popular back in the day. There's one hilarious segment where four virgins, acting as if they've already had sex, do it too close to some white paint. Original title: Schulmädchen-Report: Was Eltern nicht für möglich halten.
*** (out of 4)
Mondo style documentary was the first of thirteen films that were produced in German during a ten year span. These films were the most popular but there were countless other rips including Jess Franco's hilarious Virgin Report. In the film, a schoolgirl is caught having sex with her bus driver and it's up to the parents league to determine whether she should be kicked out of school. In the meeting is a psychiatrist who studies the behaviors of teenage girls and he tells the parents what their daughters are really doing. There are a variety of stories told in the film including a daughter getting caught by her mother masturbating, a girl thinking about losing her virginity and a young girl seducing her teacher among others. These types of mondo documentaries are pretty fun and this one here delivers on the nudity and sex, which is probably what make these studies so popular back in the day. There's one hilarious segment where four virgins, acting as if they've already had sex, do it too close to some white paint. Original title: Schulmädchen-Report: Was Eltern nicht für möglich halten.
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