Modern films about college and adolescents are very different from films on a similar subject, filmed in the twentieth century. Soviet youth films are especially touching. One cannot but recall such domestic paintings as “The Key Without the Right to Transfer”, “Draw”, “Someone else's Letters”, “ShKID Republic”, “One Hundred Days After Childhood”, “Scarecrow”, “Adventures of Electronics”, “Dear Elena Sergeevna” and many others.
Let's consider some movies in more detail.
"Raffle"
This is a Soviet cult youth film, shot by Vladimir Menshov in 1976. The main roles were played by Dmitry Kharatyan, Natalia Vavilova, Andrey Gusev, Evgenia Khanayeva. The action takes place in an ordinary Soviet school. A new student Igor Grushko (Dmitry Kharatyan) arrives in grade 10, and immediately the leadership in the class passes to him, although he does not make any efforts for this. Igor writes songs, plays the guitar and dreams of recruiting a group of musicians. He is a talented young man, what his composition “Butterflies” is worth.
But there is another leader in the class - Oleg Komarovsky (Andrey Gusev) - an excellent student with ambitious manners. Realizing that now all the attention is no longer on him, he urges students in the class to postpone the math test, and the teacher (Yevgenia Khanayeva) to lie that she allegedly did not warn about the test. As a result, his deception was revealed, and he got a unit and missed the opportunity to get a gold medal.
The picture was shot lively, interesting, it has a lot of music of excellent quality. This is the full-length debut work of Vladimir Menshov.
"Scarecrow"
The category "Films about college and adolescents, and love" cannot but be attributed to the touching film "Scarecrow." Director and actor Rolan Bykov shot a picture based on the story of the same name by Vladimir Zheleznikov “Scarecrow”. The film was released in 1983 and became a revelation to Soviet moviegoers. For the first time, schoolchildren were shown on the reverse side, not by heroes, but by antiheroes. There was a lot of discussion about the film, and it also caused a serious public outcry. In 1986, the movie Scarecrow was awarded the USSR State Prize, as well as the main prize at the Laon International Film Festival.
Rolan Bykov had a long time to choose the guys for the main roles, especially for the role of Lena Bessoltseva, which eventually played Kristina Orbakaite. Mitya Egorov, the son of the famous actress Natalya Kustinskaya, starred in the role of Dima Somov, and Yuri Nikulin was invited to play the role of Lena’s grandfather. This film was the last full-length film in the biography of the national artist.
The plot of the picture
What is the picture about? First of all, about love, friendship, betrayal and sacrifice. A new Lena Bessoltseva, granddaughter of the eccentric Nikolai Nikolayevich, came to a class where everyone obeyed the Iron Button, who collected and kept at home a collection of paintings painted by his ancestor, and before that he was fascinated by his occupation that he did not pay attention to his appearance. Because of this, he walked all the time in patches, for which the townspeople called him a “patchwork” and did not like him for a closed way of life.
The granddaughter of Nikolai Nikolaevich Lena, having come to the class, is trying to please classmates and assent to them in every possible way, even when they openly scoff at her grandfather. But the opposite picture is obtained: the students do not understand her behavior and they give her the nickname Scarecrow. Only one Dima Somov, a boy from a wealthy family who enjoys authority in the class, extends a helping hand to her, but in the end he betrays her. The girl is declared a boycott and even beaten. Sometimes, films about college and adolescents and love are struck by the realistic (cruel in this picture) events that occurred between the children.
Lena Bessoltseva and her grandfather leave the city, and Nikolai Nikolaevich gives the class a portrait of his great-grandmother, surprisingly similar to Lena (Scarecrow). The film turned out to be piercing thanks to music and shooting in the autumn.
Kristina Orbakaite in 1987 won the prize for "Best Actress" at the European Film Festival for Children and Youth in Vysh.
"One Hundred Days After Childhood"
Which of us did not like to watch films about college and teenagers in childhood? In the late seventies and early eighties, Russian Soviet directors are increasingly making films on this subject, but they touch upon the deep-seated issues of friendship, love, and relationships.
If we recall the film “Let's Live Until Monday”, then in it again human dignity and “happiness when you are understood” are put at the forefront. Approximately the same meaning is in Sergei Solovyov’s painting “One Hundred Days After Childhood.” In the children's pioneer camp, the counselor puts on the play “Masquerade”. One of the teenagers Mitya Lopukhin falls in love with his classmate Lena Ergolin (Tatyana Drubich) so much that she does not notice that another girl is looking at him with love eyes - Sonya Zagremukhina (Irina Malysheva).
This film also received the State Prize, which was presented to the director, screenwriter, cameraman and artist.
“Dear Elena Sergeevna”
Supplement the list to which belong Films about college and adolescents need a difficult, heavy tape directed by Eldar Ryazanov, “Dear Elena Sergeevna.” Although the film doesn’t shoot at school or college, this film is also about friendship, love and betrayal.
Ryazanov filmed the play of the same name by Lyudmila Razumovskaya. This was the first film for a director who shot mostly comedies, where not professional actors, but teenagers, who were also not serious about work, were invited to play the main performers.
Eldar Aleksandrovich’s phrase is well-known, said after the film “The Extraordinary Adventures of Italians in Russia” that he will never shoot animals again, and after the film “Dear Elena Sergeevna”, he will never shoot children. But still films about college and adolescents have their own halo, and peers of heroes and not only will always watch them.
What is the movie about?
Briefly, the plot is as follows: four students (three boys and one girl), graduates of the 10th grade, come home to the teacher Elena Sergeyevna to congratulate her on her birthday. But they do this not out of kindness, not in order to sympathize with the teacher, because her mother is in the hospital, and not even to say the last “goodbye” to her, because in a few days they will finish school and enter adulthood. No, they came only to pick up the keys to the safe from her where the math controls are. Taking notebooks from the safe and correcting errors, they, in their opinion, will be able to easily enter universities.
Here, as in other paintings, which are about teenagers, the psychological problems between the “strong” and “weak” are involved, when everything is turned upside down. The strong act like cowards or scoundrels, and the weak show their best traits.
Films about college and teenagers. American versions
American paintings about teenagers look quite different. For example, the movie “Otorva”, where Emma Roberts, the favorite niece of Julia Roberts, plays. The director of the film is Nick Moore, the script is Lucy Dahl. This is a very funny comedy about an uncontrollable teenage girl Poppy Moore (Emma Roberts) from a wealthy family with whom neither parents nor teachers can get along. In the end, they jointly decide to send her to an English boarding school with strict rules. There she will have fun adventures and love.
Emma Roberts coped brilliantly with the role, years later she was invited more than once to such projects, and the actress, serious about cinema, tried on the set and, despite her young age, played excellently.
Teenage films about college, school
The comedy Star of the Scene also talks about the 15-year-old Lola, who, unfortunately, is forced to leave the big city (New York) and move with her mother and sisters to the province. However, there she hopes to become a star in the school play “Pygmalion”, but it wasn’t there, the local beauty and “star” Carla is not going to give her place. Between the girls begins a serious struggle for a place in the sun.
The film was directed by Sarah Shugarman, and the main roles were played by Lindsay Lohan, Adam Garcia, Glenn Headley and others. Films about college and teenagers, comedies and melodramas, have been shot and are being shot by American directors. Even this comedy with a simple plot paid for the budget of the picture ($ 15 million) twice ($ 33 ​​million).
"Crazy teachers"
But not only American comedies look with interest. Teenage films about the college of European directors are watched with interest by residents all over the world. Filmed in 2013, the French comedy Mad Teachers proves this in full.
The director of the film is Pierre-Francois Martin-Laval, starring Christian Clavier, Isabelle Nanti, the director himself, Kev Adams and others. The picture takes place in the worst lyceum in France, students with frightening sequences beat the bucks, take the last place at all the olympiads and competitions, and the teachers dropped their hands and do not know what to do to teach these boobies something.
If we consider films about teenagers and schools, and colleges, this picture occupies a worthy place, although it shows not only crazy schoolchildren (lyceum students), but also no less crazy teachers. In order to save his lyceum from closure, the director goes all-in and invites the worst ones who are available as teachers. To answer the question of whether crazy teachers can make the senior class pass the exams well, you need to watch a movie. Everything is possible on the screen!
How to watch movies about teenagers
In order not to get confused in the number of pictures about high school children, you can make a list of yourself in which year and where films were made about college and teenagers (American). This list will help you easily find the movie you like and follow the heroes of melodramas and comedies.
Films such as University Vampire, Undercover Agent, Roommate. The American Virgin and others are similar in some ways, but of course, when they come home and want to relax, no one will watch a horror movie or a criminalistic drama. Comedy films of this kind will lead to good thoughts and a smile.
"Miss Washington Goes to Smith College"
Arman Mastroiani's painting “Miss Washington Goes to Smith College” occupies a worthy place among films of this genre. Although the picture is again on the topic of college and adolescents, but here the "student" is an adult woman. Sybill Sheppard starred. After the divorce, Alice (Sybill Sheppard) returns to college to complete her education. In a dorm room where she is given a place, there lives a girl named Zoe, the same age as Alice’s daughter. However, despite their age, a friendship is established between them. The film is simple, somewhat tightened, but you can watch it once.
List of teenage movies
Let's look at some more films about teenagers and college. This list can be replenished with the following pictures:
- "Class".
- “The boys like it.”
- "Father's daughter".
- "College".
- "The Education of Charlie Banks."
- "Tricks in college."
- Sidney White.
- "Brilliant ideas."
- "History buffs."
- "They accepted us!"
- "She is a man."
And this, of course, is not all; the list goes on without limb. Consider two more films: The Death Academy and The First Daughter.
"The Academy of Death"
Adolf Hitler had an obsession with youth, which should, in his opinion, be ruthless, fearless and fully obey his charters. To this end, National Political Academies, or a system of elite schools called “NAPOLA”, were created throughout Germany, where they prepared a new race, the masters of the “new fascist world”.
This film is about a young man Friedrich Weimer, who, under the influence of fascism, independently makes a decision (despite his father’s protest) and voluntarily enters a similar school. There he met Albrecht Stein, fragile, unlike other young men, and under his influence he eventually abandoned this monstrous institution.
Besides the deeply touched moral theme, the picture is still valuable historical events that took place not so long ago.
"First daughter"
The painting “First Daughter” is a remake of the comedy “Roman Vacations”. Here we are talking about the daughter of the US president, who, tired of the eternal warders and service agents, seizing the moment, runs away from them during her father’s visit to Europe (she accompanied the president on this trip). The film was directed by Forest Whitaker, starring Katie Holmes, Mark Blucas and others.
This film, rather, belongs to the category "Films about love." Teenagers and college (the list of paintings of a similar plot is presented above), where they study, the viewer will not see, but from this she does not become less interesting.
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