The Class of '99 - School was yesterday, life is now
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The Class of '99 - School was yesterday, life is now |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Marco Petry |
| script | Marco Petry |
| production |
Bernd Krause Marco Petry |
| camera | Axel Block |
| cut | Barbara von Weitershausen |
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The Class of '99 - School was yesterday, Life is Now is a German film from 2003. It is the continuation of the film Schule , but its content is not based on it.
General
It tells the story of the life of a group of former students some time after they finished high school together. The main focus of the film is on the different future prospects of the protagonists after leaving school.
action
Felix is happy that after six months of training with the police he can move to a job back in his hometown. There he meets his old friend Sören again, who works for a real estate agent and regularly drives across the border to the Netherlands to buy drugs there and sell them in his local discotheque.
Upon arrival at Sören's apartment, Felix meets his friends Schmidt and Hausschild again. But a lot has changed. Sören is now with Simona, although years ago, when they were both in love with Simona, the two made a promise that they would never go out with her. Sören also has some guests who are strangers to Felix and who leave a strange impression on him, for example Stone and Schnubbi. Sören then shows Felix an apartment that he and his friend would like to take over. He wants to finance the down payment of € 15,000 with the help of his drug deals.
For Felix, the police service begins shortly afterwards in his new position. There he meets his new roommate Mario, with whom he befriends. Felix is initially unsure whether he actually wants to finish his police training, but becomes more and more friends with this option as the film progresses. He gets a conflict of conscience when Sören asks him to replace his previous accomplice and to drive him regularly across the border so that Felix can check whether they are being monitored by the police. Felix agrees, but lives in constant fear of being caught and thus losing his job.
At the annual high school graduate meeting there is a dispute between Simona and Sören. Felix then accompanies Simona home. She tells him that she knew about the agreement between him and Sören and that she used to want something from Felix herself. The two start kissing.
While Felix is on patrol with a colleague, Schmidt has a fatal accident in a car. The friends are shocked. Felix drives to Simona's place of work and asks her to stop training with him and start a new life somewhere else. Simona refuses.
Felix accidentally learns through his colleague Mario that the police want to arrest Sören at the border. He warns his friend, but as a “price” he sinks a packet of drugs in a gravel pit. At first Sören is beside himself, but Felix then shows him the cross at Schmidt's accident site to get him to think. He also explains that he no longer wants to move into an apartment with Sören, but that he wants to stop working with the police and start over in another place.
The film ends with Simona, Sören and Hausschild saying goodbye to Felix at the train station.
criticism
“Atmospherically densely staged youth story, which is characterized by the precise observation of the milieu. The film benefits from the fact that it tells the story in a completely calm manner and rather casually questions the attitudes of the protagonists. "
The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating “valuable”.
Trivia
Numerous actors who have performed in school are also returning to the class of '99 - School was yesterday, life is now on. With the exception of the guest appearances by Niels Bruno Schmidt and Daniel Brühl, all actors play different roles. In addition to Axel Stein and Denis Moschitto, this also applies to Tim Egloff (as Lopacki, an ex-boyfriend of Simona) and Sebastian Kroehnert (Breitbarth, DJ at the high school graduate meeting).
The steel-blue electric locomotive shown at the beginning and end of the film is today (2012) in the DB Museum Koblenz as the official museum locomotive and so does not fit into the era of the film. It bears the old designation "E10 121" and is in its original condition from 1958. These machines were renamed by the Deutsche Bundesbahn to the DB class 110 as early as 1968 , and the color has also changed several times.
The film was released on DVD in 2004 with an aspect ratio of 16: 9 - 2.35: 1 ( CinemaScope ). The costumes are by Ursula Welter .
Web links
- The Class of '99 - school was yesterday, life is now in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The class from '99 - School was yesterday, life is now at filmportal.de (with photo gallery)
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for The Class of '99 - School was yesterday, life is now . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2003 (PDF; test number: 95 305 K).
- ↑ The Class of '99 - School was yesterday, life is now. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .