Helga Anders Movies
- 1977
This comic melodrama celebrates the fairly graceful life of prostitute Anita Drögemöller (Monique van de Ven) and her happy clientele of businessmen and small-time politicians. Working in the all-business climate of the Ruhr valley, famous for its industrial production and pollution (and not much else), she eases the lives of sundry lonely men. In one scene, her client is the vice-president of the United States. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Monique Van de Ven, Harald Leipnitz, (more)
- 1975
Based on the best-selling novel by Nobel-laureate Heinrich Böll, this drama is a passionate indictment of Catholicism. Hans Schnier (Helmut Griem) has earned his living as a clown, though he is in fact a very covert sort of social critic. After enduring a difficult childhood in Bonn during the Second World War, including his mother's fanatic Nazism, he is appalled to discover many of the people he knows and loves swept deeply into involvement in the Catholic Church. His complete estrangement from his family and friends, who are now either bourgeois or passionately Catholic (or both), is demonstrated to him, after he makes a series of efforts to make contact. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Helmut Griem, Hanna Schygulla, (more)
- 1970
This disturbing feature finds two friends who can only become sexually aroused when they are with the same girl at once. Mike (Arthur Brauss) and Werner (Klaus Loewitsch) perform with the same girl to the mutual satisfaction of al three participants. Mike watches Werner before he takes his turn, making it a sex game of victim and assailants. The two meet Alice (Helga Anders), the pretty teenage girl who resists Mice's advances. Fighting ferociously to fend off the boy, Alice is raped by Mike. When it is Werner's turn, he attacks Mike and the two engage in a vicious and bloody battle employing pounding fists, ropes and knives. Alice tries to mediate when it is clear the boys may fight to the death. A policeman hears the commotion and investigates, but Alice dismisses the incident to the lawman as just a disagreement between two good friends. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Helga Anders, Arthur Brauss, (more)
- 1970
- R
This crime drama is based on a true story from the 1930s and chronicles the adventurous exploits of two German men who went on a bloody crime spree. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1969
A classical music conductor lives with his mistress and her teenage daughter. When he and the daughter begin a love affair, the mother allows the tryst to continue for fear of losing him should she deny him her daughter's affections. The young girl falls for an avant garde musician, and the conductor tries to sabotage the relationship. He is successful for a short time, but the girl eventually runs off with the musician. The man is left with the mother, who for some strange reason still loves the lecherous lout. The film attempts to be critical of the cruel and snobbish high society that the man must tolerate in order to insure his economic survival. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Anthony Steel, Françoise Prevost, (more)
- 1968
This erotic and violent story begins with a Nazi official celebrating his birthday in a small town. He freely espouses the virtues of the youth of Germany while one such young man seduces his daughter in the next room. Another youth notifies the Nazi, who witnesses the debauchery. Both the young man and the friend who told on him are thrown in jail at the order of the irate father. The two young men escape and go on a crime spree, leaving a hail of bullets and bodies in their wake. Their rendezvous with a girl named Monika proves to be ill-fated as the girl has tipped off their location to the police. William Berger and Helmut Foernbacher star as the gullible gun toters in this bloody but breezy action drama. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- William Berger, Helmut Foernbacher, (more)
- 1967
Former Luchiano Visconti assistant Roger Fritz directs this low-budget story about lascivious Lolitas in various stages of nudity. Graphic bedroom scenes depict the coming-of-age experiences of the teenager called Junior (Juergen Jung). ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Helga Anders, Helmut Lange, (more)
- 1967
Benno (Christof Wackernagel) is a troubled 16 year-old who is placed in a home for juvenile delinquents in this depressing drama. He is mercilessly tortured by the other residents when he refuses to tell them where he has hidden a stolen gun. His isolation ends when he is invited back home to live, but he can't along with his stepfather, whose only goals are business and social climbing. Benno finds he is just as alone as he was at the reform school as he handles the stolen gun. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Helga Anders, Christof Wackernagel, (more)
- 1966
In this comedy, a hapless fellow's life changes dramatically after he is accidentally (a computer malfunctioned) "playboy of the year," by an international men's journal. The publisher's know it's all a mistake, but decide to turn this regular joe into every woman's fantasy. In true "pygmalion" fashion, the suddenly suave finds himself paraded across Europe and getting his picture taken with the most beautiful women around. Trouble brews when a female reporter learns the truth and tries to decide whether or not to publish the story. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Peter Alexander, Renato Salvatori, (more)
