Student Helene Willfüer
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| Original title | Student Helene Willfüer |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1956 |
| length | 102 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
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| Director | Rudolf Jugert |
| script | Frederick Kohner |
| production | Artur Brauner |
| music | Werner Eisbrenner |
| camera | Werner Krien |
| cut | Walter von Bonhorst |
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Student Helene Willfüer is a 1955 German drama by Rudolf Jugert with Ruth Niehaus in the title role. At her side, Hans Söhnker and Erik Schumann took on the leading male roles. The film is based on the novel “ Stud. Chem. Helene Willfüer ”(1928) by Vicki Baum .
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Graduation ceremony. On this day, the student Helene Willfüer received her doctorate in Tübingen as part of a festive event. Her gaze rests on her doctoral supervisor and mentor Professor Mathias, who has been extremely helpful to her in many matters over the past few years.
Review: Helene Willfüer is a modern young woman who has made up her mind to embark on an academic career. During a lecture followed by a discussion, she got to know Professor Matthias, who is very impressed by her alert intelligence and interest in the study material. Shortly afterwards he made Helene his personal assistant. A close, albeit always professional, relationship between teacher and student develops quickly. You understand each other blindly. This does not suit the young, Alsatian wife of the professor, Yvonne Mathias, at all. Soon she was plagued by jealousy, because the professor's wife could not imagine that there was only a purely professional relationship between her husband and the chemistry student. Yvonne sees Helene as a dangerous rival. In addition, the spirited Yvonne is gradually bored to death with her much older husband, who more and more prefers the work in the research laboratory to his capricious, exhausting and highly extroverted wife.
The situation becomes more dramatic when Helene meets the young doctor and music lover Dr. Get to know Stefan Rainer. You get along extremely well, which Yvonne Mathias doesn't like either, as she had a relationship with the young academic with whom she shares a love for music. At a New Year's Eve party, which Helene Willfüer spends in student circles, which is accompanied by plenty of alcohol consumption, Stefan confesses to her that he loves her. This embarrasses Helene, she fell in love with it during the long and intensive collaboration with her professor. Nevertheless, it comes to a night of love, also because Helene tries in this way to get Prof. Mathias out of her head. Stefan Rainer himself is anything but healthy. He is plagued by constant headaches, which he tries to combat with self-administered injections (not too successfully). When Dr. Rainer Helene proposes marriage, she rejects it, even though she is pregnant by him. As a result of this rejection, Stefan Rainer gradually loses control of himself. Plagued by a severe headache, he staggered home and fell on the couch at home without having the strength to put another shot into himself.
In this extremely delicate situation, Yvonne joins them and sees her ex lying almost unconscious. With the last of his strength, he asks the former lover to give him the urgently needed syringe. She does this too, but fails to recognize the necessary amount, so that Stefan Rainer dies of an overdose. There is a lawsuit in which Helene Willfuer is charged with murder. There were several witnesses who can confirm that Helene and Stefan last parted in an argument. Professor Mathias and his colleagues, on the other hand, are firmly convinced of Helene's innocence. When Yvonne Mathias appears as a witness, her angry husband suspects that his jealous wife wants to get rid of Helene as a pesky rival in this way. There is a heated argument between the two spouses and Professor Mathias decides to separate from his wife. Helene Willfüer is acquitted for lack of evidence and can resume her work in the chemistry laboratory. There she goes to see Yvonne, and there is a big argument that ends in a physical attack. In doing so, Helene comes into contact with a poisonous preparation. Again it is Yvonne who has to put an antidote with the syringe. The fiery professor's wife admits that it was she who gave Rainer the lethal injection subcutaneously.
Back to the present: Helene receives her doctorate and has decided to accept an offer from the University of Freiburg. Professor Mathias wishes her all the best and is left alone. He has finally separated from Yvonne and now wants to devote himself entirely to his research.
Production notes
The shooting took place between September 2 and October 20, 1955 in the CCC film studios in Berlin-Spandau and Bendestorf . The world premiere was on January 12, 1956 in Duisburg's Europa-Palast.
Wilhelm Sperber took over the production management. Ernst H. Albrecht designed the film structures that Paul Markwitz carried out. Maria Brauner was responsible for the costume designs. Gerhard Krüger assisted chief cameraman Werner Krien . Eduard Kessel took care of the sound.
The material was published in 1929 under the original title Stud. Chem. Helene Willfüer by Fred Sauer with Olga Chekhova in the title role as a later silent film for the first time.
criticism
In Filmdienst states, "transposed into the 50s, Vicky tree novel from the 20s loses its time and socially critical substance. Superficial social drama. "
Individual proof
- ^ Student Helene Willfüer. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 1, 2019 .
Web links
- Student Helene Willfüer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Student Helene Willfüer at filmportal.de