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Student Sein (To be a Student) once again musically paints a picture of campus life that has precisely no connection with reality. The students of Wurzberg University spend most of their time singing, drinking and flirting mit der pretty frauleins. Things take a serious turn when the BMOC hero (Franz Baumann), the son of a wealthy man, falls in love with a poor girl. Separated by their stations in life, the boy and girl finally come together when the hero's bankrupt father commits suicide, putting him on the same economic level as the heroine. Though Franz Baumann was far too old to convince as an undergrad, his singing could not be faulted.