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...Karajan production of Götterdämmerung, but also canceled her scheduled performances next season in Ariadne auf Naxos. Her reason: the Met was letting that nasty Von Karajan whittle down the number of her performances in order to introduce a younger Viennese protegee, Soprano Helga Dernesch, to New York audiences. "When the birds are not happy," throbbed Miss Nilsson, "they don't sing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: Bye-Bye Brunnhilde | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

...these are illustrated hygiene lectures about the varieties of sexual experience, padded out to feature length with one-dimensional plots. Unlike conventional grind-circuit skin shows, enlightenment movies approach sex with Teutonic seriousness, even though their accounts of reproduction and related matters are illustrated with explicit nude sequences. In Helga, the first Aufklaerungsfilm to be shown in the U.S., a robust young mother emerges from her shower just as her towheaded son enters the room to ask: "Where do babies come from?" Answers Mother, toweling herself: "Mutti's vagina opens and the baby slips out." The child looks satisfied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Teutonic Enlightenment | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

Released in the U.S. in August, Helga has been doing remarkably good business. According to Variety, it has been rivaling The Boston Strangler and Paper Lion as a box-office draw in Baltimore, while compiling big grosses in other cities across the country. The reason for its success may well be the leering quality of the ads ("Parents: because of certain revealing scenes . . . we suggest you see Helga first!!!") rather than the sterling quality of the plot, a simplistic, sun-filled narrative of wedded bliss. The highlight of Helga is the birth of a baby, shot straight on in gaseous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Teutonic Enlightenment | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

...Helga's creator is an energetic German film distributor named Hanns Eckelcamp, who thought that "the development of human life" might make a jolly subject for a feature film. He slapped together Helga on a budget of $200,000 and watched in astonishment as the film grossed $3,500,000 in Germany alone. Inspired by Helga's triumph, other producers quickly jumped into the enlightenment-movie business. Among the titles that have been doing boffo business in Germany are Miracle of Love, The Perfect Marriage, and You, an account of masturbation and its tension-easing benefits narrated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Teutonic Enlightenment | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

...Helga beats men into submission and then forces them to perfrom un-natural acts with her. You might like Helga. Some men do. I CRAVE YOUR BODY reaches out for new limits in sexual stimulation. See Johnny Mustang stimulate Helen Baker to the height of sexual passion ("Oh, Johnny!"). Perversion in all its gory detail . . .I CRAVE YOUR BODY...

Author: By James R. Beniger, | Title: Hetero, Homo, Sado and Pseudo: Skin Flicks Offer All Perversions | 2/29/1968 | See Source »

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