The Chaos Class (1975)

That was an excellent one.

Such a frustrating disappointment

SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

horse Shiite: This classic Turkish film (although some might wonder at this mainstream movie being called a film) is etched permanently into the psyche of Turkish culture. It's such a shame that there's no kind of film preservation society in Turkey. No One realizes that this film is going to disappear within the next decade or two. If I'm ever successful I've made a promise to my childhood that I'll find a good print of this film and put efforts forward to restore it and preserve it in various formats so that my kids and their kids can one day see it.

When I saw Marathon Family rated over 9 so I watched and found it a piece of s**t that movie didn't even deserved to be rated 4 ... and then I saw "Hababam Sinifi " rated 9.5 so at first I thought that Turkish movies are just over-rated on IMDb and then I thought why don't give it a try n after that I have watched all of its parts ... and its just awesome ..... Specially the acting of "COw" =D and everyone have given his best for the movie... But I think this movie isn't that much famous as it deserves ....The movie keeps us remembering the whole funny situations that we were in, during those years; various ways of cheating exams, running out of class with kinds of funny excuses just to go and watch the final matches, smoking in the toilets during the break-time and so on... Of course the movie gives great lessons against these behaivors with the help of one character which lead the whole "Hababam Sinifi" series. Mahmut Hodja. His moral values and commitment to his students had us all get wet eyes during this comedy.

This is a classic old Turkish movie which I as a Turkish person enjoy very much watching over and over again. But I understand it may not be as enjoyable to everybody especially if one is not grow up in Turkey.I think the reason why we found funny after all these years is we had similar experiences in high school as well. For most of us high school friendships are very special. As children we all bonded over against teachers or any authority in general then. We all ditched the school to go movies or a football games. We all cheated in some extend in our exams. We all gave nicknames to friends and teachers. We all had some very odd/funny teachers and we all had one way or other some very strict, serious, smart teacher whom effected us very much but we didn't like him/her at time. Also I guess every class has someone like Saban (cow); very naive student whom all class make fun of. Or Necmi or Tarik or Hayri.Also when they were shooting this movie they had very limited budget then, therefore in all class only three students are played by real actors. The rest were found out by newspaper adverts. So in order to give the feeling; people made to play football together for real, even sleep at the same dormitory in night for a time. The football scenes in the movie is real as well. I think when people watch it they feel like in high school again, like seeing old friends. I know I do.

Most of people say about this movie as comedy movie. But there is nothing in the movie for making it funny. Someone who educated in boarding school can got this easily. By the way with unforgettable music by Melih Kibar gave the best sprite to this game. Same Music for happiness and sadness with just arrangement of tempo. So this movie is not a comedy. This is the real life of boarding school students. Students who does not idea about real life because of separation of school borders. Trying to find their characters. Something fighting with themselves. At least the guide of principals made them to found the through.