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Rudolf Thome (writer)
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5 January 1989 (West Germany)
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The obscure philosopher Georg Hermes almost withdrew from the world to concentrate on his studies, especially Heraclitus...
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(Complete credited cast) | Johannes Herrschmann | ... | Georg Hermes |
| Adriana Altaras | ... | Franziska |
| Friederike Tiefenbacher | ... | Beate |
| Claudia Matschulla | ... | Martha |
| Jürgen Wink | ... | Franziska's Lover |
| Werner Gerber | ... | Martha's Lover |
| Antón Rey | ... | Beate's Lover |
| Marquard Bohm |
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Hardly an erotic film, but then real sex is often something different from 'sexy' (and rather better).
The plot is that an academic and socially inept philosophy student who is working on his thesis meets an attractive woman who may or may not be imaginary.
The woman is not only attractive, she has a personality. (How often do you see that in a film like this?). The philosopher and the woman become friends and then begin to have sex. (Not the way round things happen in most erotic films). He then meets her two friends who share her apartment, and when he has grown close to them, has sex with each of them in turn (and various other permutations).
The film shows a fair amount of flesh, but it has the undriven and exploratory quality of narrative of a real drama. One would need to be extremely blunt to manage to get through any sequence of this film without thinking about what is happening on-screen.
As with very few films (and hardly any English-language ones) this is a film about sex without being in any expected sense an erotic film.
I enjoy it more every time I watch it. But it leaves you with things to think about - not things to do.