Helga (1967) User Reviews

Soft-porn for teenagers dressed as a sex education flic for the boomers public going through puberty.

[patate-2 · 6 July 1999]

I saw it in secret. I must have been 14 then. Quite exciting. I remember naked girls in a school shower. My mother proposed I go see it the following week. I declined. No wonder it disappeared from collective memory. It wasn't a cinematic masterpiece.

Soft porn masquerading as documentary.

[anches-725-976306 · 2/10 · 21 July 2011]

I was sixteen when I went to see this at an out-of-town cinema (to avoid being seen by a neighbour who worked at my usual haunt). The film has little or no merit and was not worth the bus fare and the half-crown entry cost.It is badly dubbed and fuzzily photographed.The colour is not good, but at least not the garishly unattractive Technicolour which was the only real alternative back then.Although the film was widely trailed and advertised by word of mouth, it still failed to attract the audiences you might expect in those distant, post-Victorian times.It is worth noting that the second half of the sixties produced some fine films-Poor Cow, Up the Junction and other quality dramas before sinking into the mire of the "confessions" series and the poor large-screen versions of popular TV shows; this movie had neither the drama nor the faintly embarrassing humour of any of the above.

Sponsored by the German government

[Matthead · 8/10 · 28 June 2008]

This educational movie was proposed and sponsored by the German government.

Soon after been appointed health secretary, Käte Strobel, aged 60, promoted sex education.

For that, she also used modern means, school books, and this movie project.

The resulting movie was a first, and is thus considered a milestone.

Of course it was highly controversial, but even more successful, in Germany and elsewhere.

In hindsight, it is also blamed for breaking a taboo and triggering a wave of lesser movies.