6/10
Six tales in Teil five
1 December 2009
Warning: Spoilers
Francis Ford Coppola proudly proclaims his Godfather Part II was the very first sequel to use a number in it's title. Before that, sequels did not necessarily make any reference to the one that came before. But what about the German made Shulmädchen Report series then? 6 of the 13 parts were released before 1974. While every Teil in this series has a lengthy subtitle (usually pertaining to parents) that could conceivably have originally been the release title, the same thing can not be said for 'Blutjunge Verführerinnen' (three parts in '71 and '72). Therefore I am inclined to think producer Wolfgang C. Hartwig pipped FFC to the post.

Each of these films is supposedly based on the book by Günther Hunold in which he interviewed 12 schoolgirls on their sexual lives. By the time this fifth outing came round, however, the format of anecdotal soft-sex sequences as written by another Günther (this one called Heller) was firmly in place. The same thing goes for the swinging Titel-Musik by Gert Wilden. Each segment takes up between ten minutes (one reel) and fifteen. The entire film is just under 70 minutes (at least the version commented on here), amounting to a series of six segments. Most of these are more dramatic in nature than those in the 'Verführerinnen' films.

As usual in a typically male-written fantasy such as this, it is the sex obsessed girls who go around seducing (older) men every opportunity they get. Of course the time period and short skirt fashion of the day really lends itself to this kind of thing as well. Nudge, nudge. Three girls branch off from their school hiking trip to ravish their male minder. A young couple seeks advise from older counterparts to practice the art of love making. A young girl at a convent school becomes obsessed with her teacher, the school chaplain. An Italian plumber and his mate have a double date with two mini-skirted Madchen while on the job. Several school boys gang up on a girl who's found love with an older lover. A young couple contemplates consummating their love.

Amusingly, none of the actors are credited upfront, being instead listed as 'many unnamed and educational youth'. However, the one and only draw was then and always will be the young and nubile Ingrid Steeger, undefeated queen of German Sexploitation. Unlike in the aforementioned 'Blutjunge Verführerinnen' films, there are quite a few nice looking girls amongst the others (usually Ingrid is the only one worth looking at in the entire picture). But still, with her big brown eyes, that birthmark on her right cheek and the ever present bit of jewelry around her waist, Steeger instantly makes you forget all the others the moment she appears on screen. Unsurprisingly, her segment (the girl in love with the chaplain) is the centerpiece of the film. What is surprising is the sour note this film takes after that, with a girl being raped by classmates (off screen) and another being urged to lose her virginity against her will by her girlfriend. Perhaps the fact that there were two different directors working on the segments has something to do with this.

Sechs out of Zehn
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