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Follows the experiences of Petra and her friends as they reach the final year at high school.Follows the experiences of Petra and her friends as they reach the final year at high school.Follows the experiences of Petra and her friends as they reach the final year at high school.
Katja Bienert
- Petra
- (as Katja Caroll)
Wolfgang Plumhoff
- Steinberger
- (as Walter Plumhoff)
Benjamin Völz
- Dirk
- (as Benjamin Carwath)
Horst Nowack
- Freier
- (as Horst Novak)
Benjamin Witte
- Bill
- (as Benjamin Wittke)
Michael Büttner
- Horst Bauer
- (uncredited)
Josef Fröhlich
- Freier von Doris
- (uncredited)
Evelyn Gutkind-Bienert
- Mick's Wirtin
- (uncredited)
Lotti Huber
- Ältere Dame auf der Tanzfläche
- (uncredited)
Otto Retzer
- Glatzkopf in Disco
- (uncredited)
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- Writer
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- TriviaKatja Bienert recalls as her mother Evelyn, who did her management, arranged a meeting with production-assistant Otto Retzer in the Kempinski in Berlin: The famous producer Carl Spiehs was hiding behind a newspaper taking a glance at her and decided without casting to give her the main role as Petra. "When we where shooting in summer 1978 I was 11 years old, looking like a sixteen-year-old, which made the harmless nude scenes delicate. As I looked like a grown-up already at the age of eleven, taking off the cloths was like a freeing therapy." She said she was full of complexes over her early-blooming voluptuous body, but she was already used to being nude in front of people. She had already posing nude for photographers Lutz Stark and Jim Rakete. Even at that young age, she could see that men were attracted to her.
- ConnectionsEdited into Babystrich im Sperrbezirk (1983)
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The generally light-hearted German "schulmadchen-report" films always had some occasional darker and more sordid scenes in them, so perhaps it's not too surprising that the series co-creator, writer/director Walter Boos, decided to make this film which is half latter-day "schulmadchen-report", but also half an expose of the wayward teen drug addicts and prostitutes hanging around Berlins "Zoo" train station. This latter element was no doubt inspired by the uber-depressing auto-biographical novel and subsequent "serious" German film "Christiane F.". But like the other famous "Christiane" knock-off, the Italian-German "Hanna D., the Girl from Vondel Park", this movie is less serious--and a lot more fun--than its inspiration.
A young girl (Katja Beinert) has a junkie boyfriend who prostitutes himself to chickenhawks down at the bus station. After he apparently accidentally kills a john, the heroine considers dabbling in prostitution herself to help him out. She hooks up with an older friend who is a stripper and amateur prostitute. Meanwhile, another thread of the story follows a male classmate of the heroine, who is love with her, and another girl who is in love with him. And mixed with the shooting-up and the trick-turning scenes, there is the usual, much more innocent teen hijinks like a virgin picking up a sexy punk girl at a club or a couple of mischievous "schulmadchen" trying to seduce their math/gym teacher by feigning a shower-room injury, and, in turn, being taught a lesson by a female teacher (Ingeborg Steinbach, a veteran of the earlier "report" films).
Although it certainly delves into some sordid areas, this film actually ends up being more fun and light-hearted than even some of Boos straight-up comedies. But it does contain several radical shifts in tone that might give a casual viewer whiplash. It's best to not to even ponder exactly how old Katja Bienert was when she did this role, but regardless she is relegated to some fairly innocuous topless scenes here with the other more typically elderly-looking "teen" actresses doing the more graphic ones. But generally this is not one of Boos more graphic films sexually. And even with it's sordid subject matter, it's pretty hard to take too seriously. It's unlikely to get any kind of legitimate release anytime soon, but it's harmless enough.
A young girl (Katja Beinert) has a junkie boyfriend who prostitutes himself to chickenhawks down at the bus station. After he apparently accidentally kills a john, the heroine considers dabbling in prostitution herself to help him out. She hooks up with an older friend who is a stripper and amateur prostitute. Meanwhile, another thread of the story follows a male classmate of the heroine, who is love with her, and another girl who is in love with him. And mixed with the shooting-up and the trick-turning scenes, there is the usual, much more innocent teen hijinks like a virgin picking up a sexy punk girl at a club or a couple of mischievous "schulmadchen" trying to seduce their math/gym teacher by feigning a shower-room injury, and, in turn, being taught a lesson by a female teacher (Ingeborg Steinbach, a veteran of the earlier "report" films).
Although it certainly delves into some sordid areas, this film actually ends up being more fun and light-hearted than even some of Boos straight-up comedies. But it does contain several radical shifts in tone that might give a casual viewer whiplash. It's best to not to even ponder exactly how old Katja Bienert was when she did this role, but regardless she is relegated to some fairly innocuous topless scenes here with the other more typically elderly-looking "teen" actresses doing the more graphic ones. But generally this is not one of Boos more graphic films sexually. And even with it's sordid subject matter, it's pretty hard to take too seriously. It's unlikely to get any kind of legitimate release anytime soon, but it's harmless enough.
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- School Girls of the Zoo Station, Berlin
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- Runtime1 hour 36 minutes
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- 1.66 : 1
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By what name was Train Station Pickups (1979) officially released in Canada in English?
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