tragic comedy. “’13 Semester‘ is an entertaining and loveable German students‘ comedy. After some initial difficulties, director Wittich does not stick his foot in his mouth as often as could have been expected. It authentically, emphatically and humorously deals with really essential questions, such as “Why” and “Where to” in life and also gives differentiated answers. Here and there, it pleasantly makes fun of some cinematic stereotype which means that what is expected is not what happens. Success 13 Semester had its debut performance on September, 29 in 2009 during the Zurich Film Festival. It had its first release in Germany on the Hof International Film Festival on October, 28 the same year. Finally, the official theatrical release was on January, 7 in 2010. In Germany, the film attracted 56,700 viewers on the first screening weekend and thereby got on place 7 of the cinema charts. Until March 2010 a total of 174,600 viewers watched the film. It made about 1,333,750 $ (1,068,950 €) at the box offices. The movie thereby in turn got on place 29 of the most successful German productions of 2010. Cast Max Riemelt as Moritz (called “Momo”) Robert Gwisdek as his friend Dirk Dieter Mann as Professor Schäfer Amit Shah as Aswin Moritz Pliquet as Arne Daniel Zillmann as Käthe Cyril Sjöström as Flo Alex Holike as Jugendherbergsgast Benjamin Kramme as Uwe Alexander Fehling as Bernd (flatmate of “Momo”) Claudia Eisinger as Kerstin References External links German comedy films 2000s German-language films 2009 films 2000s German films