The title itself is a phonetic transcription of “Fuck you, Goethe” and many of the characters, including Zeki, speak ungrammatical/slang German. Zeki bluntly tells the students about how they are perceived, “You’re the loser class … You’re scum,” to which direct connections can be drawn to the words thrown around during the recent migration protests in Germany. Because it takes place in a high school, specifically a school mainly for “youth from the under-educated class,” the film plays on many stereotypes of teenage personas and also different socio-economic classes. He also makes a comment about the students’ “Nazi grandparents” in class. For example, Zeki takes his class on an unconventional field trip, which includes a visit to a Neo-Nazi’s bedroom. It never addressed social issues heavy-handedly, but a couple of topical references are made. A romance develops between the pair as she shapes him into a teacher and he helps her gain the respect of her students. It is here that he meets Lisi, a passionate, but unassertive teacher at Goethe High, who is largely ignored and bullied by her students. Although unqualified, he finds his way into the role of substitute teacher at the school in order to dig under the gym after hours. He promptly finds out that one of his friends buried the stolen money at a construction site, where Goethe High School’s gym was erected. Zeki is released from prison after serving time for a robbery. It stars Elyas M’Barek as the male lead Zeki Müller and Karoline Herfurth as the female lead Lisi Schnabelstedt. It proved to be one of the most commercially successful German films of the decade, placing second in gross income in the 2013 German yearly box office, surpassed only by The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (not German). Posted in conjunction with the course Multicultural Germany in fall semester 2015.įack ju Göhte ( Suck Me Shakespeer) is a 2013 German screwball/romantic comedy, directed by Turkish-German director Bora Dağtekin.
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