Hurra, die Schule brennt!


Hurra, die Schule brennt! is a 1969 German comedy film directed by Werner Jacobs and starring Peter Alexander, Heintje Simons and Theo Lingen. It is the fourth of a series of school comedy films under the collective title , all of them starring Hansi Kraus and Theo Lingen.

Plot

Dr. Peter Bach, a young and excellent teacher, has been mistakenly transferred to the village of Tuttelbach, where he teaches at the local elementary school. When the head of the Education Ministry, von Schnorr, attempts to correct that mistake, he finds Dr. Bach unwilling to leave since he has come to enjoy the easy and picturesque village life. However, in the end Bach is left with no other choice when von Schnorr accidentally drops his burning cigar into the school room's waste basket, where it quickly starts a fire that burns the school to the ground.
Dr. Bach and his nephew Jan move to Baden-Baden, where Bach is assigned to the notorious Class 12a of the Mommsen-Gymnasium. Pepe Nietnagel and his classmates initially meet their new teacher with little enthusiasm, but Bach's easy-going and frank personality soon gains their genuine sympathy and support. Oberstudiendirektor Dr. Taft, being the old-fashioned traditionalist that he is, however, just as quickly disapproves of Bach's approach to the students, and together with the teaching staff's majority decides to get rid of him as quickly as possible. When Pepe and his friends learn about this, they begin to fight tooth and nail to keep Bach at their school, culminating in a school play in which Bach and the students present a very liberal re-interpretation of Schiller's William Tell. The film ends with Kurt Nietnagel, Pepe's father, asking Dr. Taft to attend the christening and maiden flight of a new glider at Nietnagel's glider club, which ends with Taft and Bach accidentally making the flight and a subsequent parachute dive back to the ground.

Cast

Songs

  • "Hurra, die Schule brennt" ... Peter Alexander and children's choir
  • "Wir zwei verstehn uns gut" ... Peter Alexander and Heintje
  • "Wie Böhmen noch bei Österreich war" ... Peter Alexander
  • "Klein sein, das ist schön" ... Heintje
  • "Wilhelm Tell-Song"... Peter Alexander and choir
  • "Immer wieder" ... Peter Alexander and Heintje
  • "Liebesträume" ... Peter Alexander
  • "Bonanza"... Peter Alexander
  • "Geh Deinen Weg" ... Heintje

Awards