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8 June 2000 (Germany)
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Benjamin is a 16 year old half-side spastic with lousy grades in math, who switches to a boarding school to reach grammar school...
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That's life!
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Robert Stadlober | ... | Benjamin Lebert |
| Tom Schilling | ... | Janosch Schwarze |
| Oona-Devi Liebich | ... | Malen |
| Julia Hummer | ... | Marie |
| Can Taylanlar | ... | Troy |
| Christoph Ortmann | ... | Kugli |
| Joseph Bolz | ... | Dünner Felix |
| Willy Rachow | ... | Florian |
| Dagmar Manzel | ... | Juliane Lebert, Benjamins Mutter |
| Burghart Klaußner | ... | Klaus Lebert, Benjamins Vater |
| Mira Bartuschek | ... | Paula Lebert, Benjamins Schwester |
| Jörg Gudzuhn | ... | Herr Falkenstein |
| Katharina Müller-Elmau | ... | Frau Westphalen |
| Irene Kugler | ... | Frau Bachmann |
| Germain Wagner | ... | Herr Richter |
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Sibel Gerhardt, stepsister of Jan Lehmann, auditioned for the role of Marie and was one of the favorites. She was rejected only because she was too young to play some of the love scenes in the movie.
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Referenced in Delphinsommer (2004) (TV)
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When I was 16 I often asked myself if my life isn't just a movie, watched by me. And if it isn't it would have been a good one. This was 3-4 years ago and I still can't let this thinking go. When you're a teenager you have the feeling that your life is much more special. I hope I will never lose that feeling. If somebody would have had the idea to make a movie about my life it would have looked like ‘Crazy', a brilliant portrait about life as a teenager.
It's about a sixteen or seventeen year old student named Benni who has switched schools for years and now gets his last chance to pass his course in maths. He comes to a boarding school where he finds friends and love. He tries to get a girl and to have sex the first time. Oh, and he's half paralyzed. When he has to introduce himself in his new French-class he says his name and his age in french and then adds in German: `Yes, and I'm a cripple.'
The movie is never really about his paralysis. If it had been, it would have been a totally different movie. His handicap is there, yes, but it isn't really obvious. You accept it as well as the other characters in the movie do it. Benni says he hopes to get some friends and that usually he's glad if everybody lets him alone. Of course finds a group of friends and together they do all the things boys do in that age. He and his best friend Janosch are both in love with the same girl and are both trying equally to get her.
If this sounded as if it was a usual teenage-comedy like the ones we saw more than enough in recent years, it has sounded wrong. This film has nothing to do with the unrealism and comicness of films like `She's All That' and absolutely nothing with the stupidity and sex-related films like `American Pie'. This is just a movie which shows how life is when you're sixteen and a boy.
They think of sex pretty much, of course. Who hadn't done that? They buy porn magazines, they talk about ‘the first time' and they even masturbate as group on a cookie. That's like it is and was in that time. We did things like that. But has anyone ever let a girl strip in his living room and film it for the whole neighborhood? Surely not. That's the difference between ‘Crazy' and ‘American Pie'. ‘AP' hasn't anything to do with real life. The characters there just think about sex the whole day. In ‘Crazy' sex and love is both equally important.
The actors are just fantastic. Robert Stadlober as Benni is a wonderful talented young actor and you really have to wonder that he isn't paralyzed in real life. Tom Schilling as Janosch is also great, the right choice for the cool leader of the group. Most of the characters seem like clichés, but none of them is just ‘that' kind of guy. Most of them have developed character trades and more than just one behaviour.
Hans-Christian Schmid, the director, who has also made the fantastic ‘23', shows again how big his talent is and how less he has forgotten that he was young (it's his third feature about young people). The film is based on the novel by Benjamin Lebert, and this book is pretty autobiographical. Lebert is paralyzed in real life and the stories we see in the film happened really. The author even was in talks to play himself as the main character.
To watch this movie is like a time travel. On one hand you wish you could experience all of this again, because it was such a wonderful time. On the other hand, you also realize how hard it was sometimes and how cruel everybody could be. For me, it was even harder, because it seems past so long from my actual life although it's just three years ago. I'm glad there are (few) movies like this who help us travel back.
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