Girlfriends & other monsters

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Movie
Original title Girlfriends & other monsters
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1998
length 85 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Mika Kallwass
script Katya Kleiner
Thomas Springer
production Michael Braun
Alexander Buchman
Thomas Springer
music Andreas Bruhn ,
Stevo Wilcken
camera Reinhard Köcher
cut Ingo Ehrlich
Ulrike Leipold
occupation

The "fun gang":

The youth film Freundinnen & other monsters is a German comedy film from 1998 .

action

introduction

15-year-old Katja moves from the country to the city of Essen. At her new school there is a hip girl gang that Katja would like to belong to. But that is only allowed if you pass a test of courage ...

Bulk

1st sequence
When the gang has problems with a police officer, Katja is able to save the girls. And so she is included in the "fun gang" for rehearsal. But there is one more condition attached to the final admission. Only girls who are no longer virgins are allowed to be members of the gang. Katja has 30 days to meet this requirement.

2. Sequence
And so Katja begins to meet different boys from her new school. But with none of the boys does she manage to lose her innocence. Because she realizes that love doesn't work on command. Since the "fun gang" doesn't want to lose Katja as a member, they want to help her. You hire Marc for 100 DM. But Marc actually falls in love with Katja, and that's why he gives the gang the money back.

3rd sequence
However, Annika from the “fun gang” is also in love with Marc, and has tried to land with Marc several times in vain. That's why she is jealous of Katja and tells her about the "fun gang" deal with Marc. When Katja found out about this, she was furious and broke up with Marc, and she didn't want anything to do with the girl gang either. In addition to her lovesickness, Katja also worries about her horse, which she had to leave behind in the country. The horse does not want to eat anymore because of sorrow. That's why Katja is looking for a stable near the city. But the costs are too high for them.

4. Sequence Meanwhile,
the fun gang argue who told Katja about the deal. This eventually leads to the group breaking up. Annika finally realizes her mistake. She tells Marc everything about Katja's worries. He then found a stable for Katja's horse, and so they finally reconcile, and Katja loses her innocence.

Enough

And the fun gang also comes together again. Finally, the question arises whether the virgin rule still applies. So it turns out that almost all of the girls are actually still virgins.

analysis

Structure The comedy plays, especially in the first half of the film up to the dramatic climax, with elements from teen sex slapstick films. Only when the main character Katja is at her emotional low point at the end of the second sequence, after she feels betrayed by her boyfriends, does the picture change and the people are illuminated in a differentiated way.

People Katja is a 15 year old bright girl. She copes with the change from her usual living environment very quickly and adapts to her new environment. Group dynamics are important to her, so she submits to the rules of her new friends, even if she is not entirely comfortable with losing her innocence on command.

She eventually matures and realizes that love is more than sex. And she also becomes more self-confident when dealing with her friends and learns to represent her point of view.

The girls in the “fun gang” hardly appear as individual individuals. They form the group dynamic, which demands clear rules from the members. The group gives the young people support on their way to develop into adult individuals. And so the group learns one of the hardest lessons: the courage to be honest.

Further information

As a guest star, Franco "Salvatore" Campana plays a supporting role as the Italian ice cream seller Antonio. He shows the fun gang some shell games . Franco Campana was known as "Salvatore" in the 80s with these shell games in RTL's advertising program.

Reviews

The pubescent girl who moves away from her own horse to the big city with her mother - that sounds like the ZDF Christmas series that we loved so much. In terms of level, the whole thing doesn't move on any other level (but probably doesn't want to either), although the authors use a refreshingly natural everyday language here.
moviemaster.de

But it is quite pitiful what the 34-year-old Cologne woman with “Lindenstrasse” experience is presenting. And once again it proves how far many German productions are from an international level.
AP 7/1998

For critics, it is more of a zero number, because he is stingy with aesthetic means, does not offer much artistically - apart from the few soft and pink filtered flashbacks.
filmportal.de

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