The student from Bochum

Movie
Original title	The student from Bochum
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	2015
length	10 mins
Rod
Director	Frederic Lippe
script	Frederic Lippe
production	Frederic Lippe ; Mohammad Samra
music	Janis Theurer
camera	Felix Hasler
cut	Frederic Lippe
occupation
	Yannic Lippe : Andy Georg Bill Balduin; Nuri Yildiz : Rudi Scapinelli; Joachim Gresch : Detective Morpheus; Dominik Lippe : Overseer Henry;

Der Student von Bochum is a German short film by Frederic Lippe from 2015. It was produced as the final production of the Digital Film & VFX course at the SAE Institute in Bochum. The student from Bochum deals with the phenomenon of procrastination using the example of a student who repeatedly postpones the preparation of an essay on film history. Both the title of the film and the names of two characters refer to the silent film The Student of Prague .

action

The student Andy Georg Bill Balduin only has one day left to submit an essay on film history. At first he decided to go to work, but was distracted by a poster from Charlie Chaplin . Balduin then finds himself in a scene that is stylistically oriented towards silent films . Overseer Henry gives Balduin various work orders that Balduin is not able to carry out to his satisfaction. When Henry finally asks him about his housework, Baldwin wakes up, startled. Annoyed, he fetches something from the refrigerator when a figure dressed in black becomes recognizable in the next room. Baldwin suddenly finds himself running in a snowy forest. He is followed by a person wearing a Freddy Krueger mask . When the two fight, Baldwin manages to unmask his opponent, who turns out to be himself. Baldwin wakes up again and opens the front door to his friend Rudi Scapinelli. This distracts him from work. Annoyed by Scapinelli, he tries to relax, whereupon he suddenly sits in an interrogation room. Detective Morpheus accuses him of an unspecified crime. Baldwin protests his innocence until Morpheus tells him to wake up. Baldwin wakes to find that there are two weeks left until the deadline.

background

Filming

The four days of shooting took place at the end of January 2015 in Hagen and Cologne as well as at the SAE Institute in Bochum . Eleven film and audio students from SAE were involved in making the film.

publication

The short film premiered on March 21, 2015 in Bochum's “Metropolis”. Since April 1, 2015, Der Student von Bochum has been available on the YouTube video portal . As part of the "Short Film Night", the film was broadcast on television for the first time on April 21, 2015 by NRW.TV. Another broadcast followed on April 23. In mid-March 2019, the television broadcaster NRWision added the short film to its media library. After the broadcaster had shown the program for the first time on the evening of March 26th in a linear program, thirteen more broadcasts followed by April 1st, 2019. As part of its summer program, NRWision broadcast the film again daily from August 13th to 17th.