13 Semester

13 Semester is a German comedy film from 2009. The subtitle caption Der frhe Vogel kann mich mal indicates that some students are not happy about the early bird.semesters is longer than the standard period of study.

The friends Moritz and Dirk are accepted at the Technical University of Darmstadt and leave their small home village in Brandenburg to set out for the big town to study mathematical economics. Having arrived, their lives change in completely different ways. While Dirk becomes a successful student and masters tutorials and term papers with ease, Moritz is distracted from his studies by the university lifestyle and soon falls behind. Following the slogan Screw the early bird Moritz prefers to party with his roommate Bernd and gets himself through life with various side jobs. On one of Bernds parties he meets Kerstin, the woman of his dreams, with whom he ends up in a relationship after some indirections.Due to a lack of motivation he is thrown out of his and Dirks study group. This fuels him with new ambition and together with his Indian fellow student Aswin, who lives his life in discipline, Moritz picks himself up and passes his intermediate diploma. In gratitude he shows Aswin the more enjoyable side of university life and takes him along to drink beer. This leads to Aswins life taking a yet unexpected turning as well. After his intermediate diploma Moritz spends a semester abroad in Australia. These scenes are expressed through multiple photo sequences that are commented by Moritz. The story he tells differs considerably according to whom he is talking to. ........

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