"Leidenschaftliche Blümchen" or "Boarding School" is a West German German-language film from 1978, so this one will have its 40th anniversary soon. It stars the really young Nastassja Kinski in one of her earliest roles as a school girl with some naughty fantasies. But she is not the only one. Her female buddies are just as bad and they decide to launch a business, which allows the school boys to see the girls naked if they pay enough money and if they really pay enough money, even engage in sexual activities. So prostitution is a major plot reference here. but it is not displayed as something evil, rather as something that belongs to the girls' sexual awakenings for some bizarre reason. The film was directed by André Farwagi, a French filmmaker, and Paul Nicholas wrote the screenplay based on Laura Black's novel. I have not read the book, so I cannot say if it is as much garbage, but this film here surely is. The actors are all pretty bad and the way they talk about their business was supposed to seem innocent and inexperienced, but due to the lack of range, it just looks all very amateurish. Klaus Kinski's daughter does not stand out at all and as this is one of her most known German films, I cannot say I got curious about any of her other works. These 100 minutes were extremely underwhelming and are not better than most of the 1970's sex comedies from Germany, Austria and Switzerland with the major difference that this film here does take itself so seriously on many occasions that it feels pretty cringeworthy. You'd better stay away or don't say I haven't warned you.

As a British teenager back in the 60s, it was hard work finding material to fuel your erotic fantasies - Britain was still fairly tightly buttoned up. However, as the 60s became more swinging, so the laces loosened, initially with the written word. Penguin books had kicked things off in the 50s with the DH Lawrence novel Lady Chatterly's Lover, of course. Gradually there was a move away from literary material which was sexually oriented (Lady Chatterly, A Cold Wind In August etc.) to books which were targeted towards erotic entertainment rather than serious literature. Passion Flower Hotel by Rosalind Erskine ( pseudonym for Roger Erskine) was a case in point. It was a saucy, lightly humorous novel about a group of boarding school girls who set themselves up as a rather tentative brothel for the benefit of the local boarding school boys (a different, neighbouring school). This, for a 60s adolescent lad who had not not joined the Permissive Society, was pretty spicy stuff. My copy became dog eared, and took to falling open at certain pages.I encountered this movie late one night on TV and it was well under way when I thought "Hello! This is Passion Flower Hotel!" Although the adaptation is distinctly European (the book is very English), the story is pretty much the same.Don't expect this film to be sexually lurid. There is some nudity, the plot is driven by sex, but there is an air of innocence about the girls' enterprise and also the movie itself. These were simpler times, and by being set even further back in time, the innocence is amplified. It is mildly erotic, pretty to look at, gently entertaining, and rather charming in its own understated manner.And, for me, it brings back very welcome memories of the book.

This is is one of a number of German films they used to show on late-night cable TV stations a lot in the late 70's and early 80's. But it's different than a lot of those other movies in that rather than being a sex-saturated, oom-pah-pah scrompfest, it's kind of coming-of-age film, not unlike the American teen comedies of the early 80's (it especially resembles the summer-camp classic "Little Darlings"). It's set at a Swiss boarding school where a bunch of girls decide, not only to lose their collective virginity to the boys at a school across the lake, but also to make money by charging them for it! (This is one movie I probably wouldn't expect a modern-day Hollywood re-make of). They have a surprising (and rather ridiculous) amount of trouble pulling this off though.Even though this movie opens with a close-up of the bare breast of one of the older, bustier girls, this is actually surprisingly innocent movie with very little actual sex in it. It's very dumb but kind of sweet. The main attraction,of course, was Natsassia Kinski, who plays the new girl at the school, who becomes the catalyst for the whole thing after she meets a handsome guy from the boys' school on the train. Except for the topless girl at the beginning, Kinski pretty much provides all the nudity and sex here. She does a memorable striptease (out of an alligator costume!) for the boys at a party, and her de-virginising is the only one that occurs on-screen. Although she was not very old here, Kinski is not particularly believable as an inexperienced virgin (perhaps because in real-life she'd already had torrid affairs with Roman Polanski and Milos Forman by this time).The only other cast member that might look familiar is Fabiana Udenio, the Italian-Argentinean beauty who later played "Alotta Fagina" in the original "Austin Powers". She has only a very small role here though (and, even by German standards, she was too young at the time to really participate in the sexual shenanigans).This movie doesn't compare to other late German-made cable fodder as a sex film (or to Kinski's truly erotic follow-up to this "Stay the Way You Are"). But although it has the disadvantage of being dubbed, it's really no dumber than most of the early 80's teen sex comedies (and it's one of the few that's about sexually curious girls rather than horny boys). It's worth seeing I guess.

I would say I wasted my money purchasing this movie, but it was only $2.88. You get what you pay for. That's no lie. Of course, they place Natassja Kinski on the cover to lure you into checking it out. Well, she's the star and she is beautiful as always. But that's not saying anything at all. This is a low, low- (almost no-) budget comedy that will knock you out better than the best anasthetia money can buy. Even the nudity can't save it. The film even starts with a shot of a topless female. Besides, there isn't THAT much nudity (it nowhere near reaches the lengths of softcore porn) and it's SOOOOOO boring that nothing--and I mean NOTHING--can possibly save it. I would write a couple of paragraphs about how much I hate this movie, but I don't like to pick on extremely low-grade movies that are pretty much...supposed to be bad. This is hardly a movie; it's just a collection of poorly photographed images. Film should've been re-titled BORED-ING SCHOOL.My score: 2 (out of 10)