Johannes Herrschmann Movies

An ageing swimming champion falls for a failed writer after answering an unusual personal ad in director Rudolf Thome's existential love story. Impulsively responding to an ad placed by an awkward young writer Johannes, middle-aged Johanna Perl falls hopelessly in love. On the surface Johannes is a balding failure, but Johanna sees something in her new lover that inspires her like never before. Soon enough, the unlikely new couple decides to move in together, and even Johanna's daughter Sophia finds romance with a handsome new beau. While all is well at first, the blissful new living arrangement is soon shattered when Johannes pens a best seller and begins sleeping with his publicist, leaving his older lover to wonder if she has finally lost her mind. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

Three attractive young women who run a men's clothing store also share living arrangements. They have grown quite bored with the usual pick-up scene, with its endless series of one-night stands. When a suitably attractive and virginal young man, Georg Hermes (Johannes Herrschmann), comes in looking for a suit, they collectively decide to adopt him as their boyfriend. One of their number, Franziska (Adriana Altaras), takes him on a boating trip and seduces him, at the same time persuading him to give up his apartment and move into theirs. When he moves in, Beate and Marthe (Friederike Tiefenbascher and Claudia Matschulla), the other two women, begin to shower him with sexual attentions, which out of loyalty to Franziska he tries to refuse. When he finally understands that responding to them is what she wants, he suddenly finds himself in a sexual situation undoubtedly the fulfillment of many a male fantasy. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

Absolutely no relation to the dreadful 1966 John Ford film of the same name, 1989's Seven Women was originally released in West Germany as Sieben Frauen, and later reissued as Forms of Love (the umbrella title for director Rudolf Thome's "Love" trilogy, which included this film, The Microscope and The Philosopher). Johanes Herrschmann, a young self-made millionaire, gives up all his money so he can marry a woman who will love him for himself. Herrschmann's plan to move into his father's house is complicated by his dad's ex-business partners, who want to get their hands on some incriminating papers secreted in the house and aren't above murder to do it. The young man is protected by seven women, all members of the same family who live in the house next door. It is the oldest of the women (Elisabeth Zundel) whom Herrschmann decides to marry. This bare-bones synopsis does not take into account the many moral and metaphysical subthemes inserted into the film by producer/director/writer Thome. Though loaded with ideas, Seven Women is the soul of simplicity in its execution. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide