Seventeen girls are the better guys
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| Original title | Seventeen girls are the better guys |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
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| Director | Hansjörg Thurn |
| script | Hansjörg Thurn |
| production | Ivo-Alexander Beck |
| camera | Uwe Schäfer |
| cut | Andreas Radtke |
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Seventeen - Girls Are Better Boys is a German television film that was produced in the series made by ProSieben in 2002. It first aired on February 6, 2003.
The film is a kind of pilot for the series 18 - Alone Among Girls .
action
17-year-old Luka is a girl who doesn't put on make-up and finds boxing much more exciting than ballet. She is expelled from school after breaking the nose of a classmate in class for exposing her in front of the assembled class. When she switched to boarding school in Herzogenfeld, she was thought to be the student Frankie Königsberg because of her short hair, her jacket and Toby's rescue. Luka and Frankie had met on the drive to boarding school. Frankie, son of the fashion prince Richard Koenigsberg, has no desire to visit another one after being expelled from various schools. On the bus, he asked Luka to get a “cooler jacket”, which immediately appropriated Frankie's jacket, on which his initials “FK” can be read. As soon as she arrives at school, she is confused with the legendary Frankie Königsberg and has the opportunity to take on his role and enjoy the advantages of being a boy over her life as a girl.
She comes into the room of the clique around Jo, Toby and Chico and is immediately accepted into them. Luka believes that she has reached the goal of her dreams and takes on some hardships in return. But the head boy Rinker, nephew of the headmistress, senses that there is too much competition in “Frankie”, which is well received by the girls. When Jo, who is in love with the headmistress, is told by "Frankie" that the biology teacher is supposed to have a relationship with her, he goes nuts and hits the teacher, after which he is threatened with expulsion from school. Rinker's voice in the school conference is decisive for or against being expelled. Rinker takes the chance and challenges Luka to a boxing match, if she stays on her feet for ten minutes, he promises to vote against Johannes' reprimand.
Mouse finally acts as a boxing coach and Luka can win the fight. However, Luka falls in love with her roommate Chico, who also has feelings for her, but is initially overwhelmed by the situation because he thinks he is gay. Peggy, Rinker's friend, feels rejected and humiliated by "Frankie" and therefore starts the rumor that "Frankie" showed her his penis. Despite Luka's win in the boxing match, Rinker votes for Jo to be kicked out and beats Luka and a friend in the washroom. They also undress her and discover that "Frankie" is a girl. When the headmistress found out about this, she expelled Luka from the school and Toby, Maus and Chico were also threatened with expulsion after they were not cooperative.
Toby finds Luka on her "reflection" bridge and after Toby has revealed to Luka that he has known she is a girl since the second day together, the two jump down into the river together. Toby eventually organizes a graduation party for Luka. Luka, now apparently styled as a girl, gives a farewell speech in front of the astonished students. She apologizes to everyone she has hurt and how much she cares about her friends. She does not allow herself to be forbidden or banished by the headmistress, which earns her great respect from the students. Ultimately, she and Chico get together and spend a romantic night in the open air. The film leaves open whether this will turn into a lasting relationship.
main characters
- Luka ("Frankie")
- 17 years old, boyish, falls in love with Chico. Loves boxes and describes her way of coping with life as a "2-to-1 mixture of rum and cola".
- Toby
- very shy and reserved, good friend and contact person for Luka, comes from a simple background and has a scholarship for boarding school.
- Yo
- Pastor's son from Freiburg, his mother died three years ago, he has lived very withdrawn since then, is allegedly in love with the boarding school rector Dr. Finkeldey and writes letters to him every day. The only adult in the clique, gets alcohol and cigarettes for parties.
- Chico
- stands in the shadow of his big brother Maik, who left boarding school as the best student of all time. Falls in love with "Frankie" (Luka).
- mouse
- pretends to be a tantra specialist in front of his classmates , has a weakness for technology and heavy metal .
Reviews
- The lexicon of international films describes the film as a "comedy of confusion for a young audience that is supposed to be lured with antiquated recipes à la" Charly's Tante "."
- x-zine.de describes the “musical background with shallow pop and sappy love songs” as “good” and also says “the characters are right” and are “brilliantly cast”.
DVD
The television film was also released on DVD in 2004.
Series continuation
From 2004 to 2005 ProSieben produced the youth series 18 - Alone Among Girls , which takes up the characters Jo, Toby and Maus: They are transferred to a boarding school for girls, in which all sorts of amorous entanglements with their classmates. The clique is taken over into the series without Luka and Chico, the new character Leo is added as a “replacement”.
Web links
- Seventeen - Girls are the best guys in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Seventeen Girls are the Better Boys in the online movie database
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b roterdorn.de: Seventeen - girls are the better boys (review) ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Seventeen Girls Are Better Boys. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Web archive from x-zine.de
