Helga and the Men - The Sexual Revolution
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| Original title | Helga and the Men - The Sexual Revolution |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1969 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
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| Director | Roland Cämmerer |
| script | Roland Cämmerer Klaus ER from Schwarze |
| production | Roland Cämmerer |
| music | Karl Barthel |
| camera |
Hans Jura Antonio Goncalves Adolf Gürtner |
| cut |
Lilo Krüger Ilse Wüstenhöfer |
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Helga and the Men - The Sexual Revolution is a German educational film from 1969. Ruth Gassmann plays the title role here for the third and last time, after Helga - Vom Werden des Menschen Leben (1967) and Helga and Michael (1968). Felix Franchy also plays her husband Michael here.
action
As a result of the student unrest and the APO activities at universities in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1968, this new “Helga” film also picks up on a core theme of the student body: the “sexual revolution”. Helga wants to write a report on this topic for a magazine and for this reason sets out to South America for research purposes in order to get to know the Latin American situation on site. In Brazil she starts an affair with the interpreter Carlos. Her husband, the biologist Michael, works on the same subject from a completely different point of view than the sociological Helgas and would like to carry out comparative scientific studies at home.
In Brazil, Helga is meanwhile expanding her horizons, visiting the favelas (slums) of the big city and discussing with locals, students and priests about the neglect of the past in partnership and social matters, but also the dangers of the present, for example in the form of uncontrolled population growth the economic crisis only intensified. Back at home, Helga finds her way back to her husband and the two happily survived their first serious marital crisis.
Production notes
Helga and the Men - The Sexual Revolution came about in the winter of 1968/69 and was premiered on April 24, 1969.
criticism
The lexicon of the international film found that the staging style was "again of that brightly lacquered awkwardness that makes you think of mail-order catalogs in its scene arrangements" and came to the conclusion: "On the whole superficial and banal."
Web links
- Helga and the men - the sexual revolution in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Helga and the men - the sexual revolution at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helga and the Men - The Sexual Revolution. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 13, 2018 .