39 sailors and a girl

Movie
German title	39 sailors and a girl
Original title	One pigeon and 39 sømænd
Country of production	Denmark
original language	Danish
Publishing year	1965
length	114 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Anneliese Reenberg
script	Anneliese Reenberg, Peer Guldbrandsen
music	Sven Gyldmak
camera	Ole Lytken , Aage Wiltrup
cut	Maj Soya
occupation
Birgit Sadolin : Else Jensen Karl Stegger : Otto Jensen Morten Grunwald : ship electrician Peter Eberhardt Kirsten Søberg : Mrs. Jensen Axel Strøbye : Captain Barker Poul Bundgaard : Ship's cook Alfred Ove Sprogøe : Boatswain Andersen Jan Priiskorn-Schmidt : Holger Arthur Jensen : Hofmeister Henry Nielsen : Christiansen Sigrid Horne-Rasmussen : Wilhelmine Jacobsen Bjørn Puggaard-Müller : Chief helmsman Karlson Erik Kühnau : Walther, second helmsman Ole Søltoft : Niels, third helmsman Hugo Herrestrup : Sailor Olsen Jesper Langberg : Sailor Lauritsen Bent Vejlby : Seaman Sørensen Valsø Holm : Seaman Jensen Ove Rud : Machinist Poul Holger Vistisen : Machinist Erik

39 Sailors and a Girl (original title Een pige og 39 sømænd ) is a Danish fiction film by the director Anneliese Reenberg from 1965. The screenplay was written by the director together with Peer Guldbrandsen . The film was first released in Denmark on November 12, 1965, and in the Federal Republic of Germany on August 19, 1966.

action

Because the shipowner wants to annoy the captain of her ship, instead of a full-grown sea dog, she sends him a very young landlubber as a radio telegraphist among the 39-strong crew. While the latter welcomes the outpost of female equality with great joy and does not save with invitations and intrusiveness, Captain Barker foams like the wild sea over his boss's prank. But Else Jensen vows to be good and chaste. She doesn't want to look at any of the sailors longer than the duty dictates. But as promised, so broken. The sparks jump over when Peter, the electrician, who is completely in tears and unsuspecting, explains the operation of the equipment and surprises you a few days later in the captain's bathtub. It is he who takes the demi-dressed woman with him on holiday in the country and finally proposes marriage to Else after her long loneliness in a prison cell in which they both ended up after a tavern fight.

criticism

"Danish slapstick cinema."

- Lexicon of international film

"A naive Danish joke for a few" nice hours "on the subject: How does a woman among 39 men who do not want to be lonely and do not want to disturb the comradely harmony behave? The attraction of the film lies less in the comic ideas than in the great enthusiasm of the actors. "

- Protestant film observer

Web links

• 39 sailors and a girl in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Een pige og 39 sømænd in the Danish Film Institute on dfi.dk in the Det Danske Film Institute
• Een pige og 39 sømænd on danskefilm.dk in the Dansk Film Database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The source for the plot is the long review in the Evangelisches Film-Beobachter . Editor: Evangelischer Presseverband Munich, Review No. 182/1967, p. 251
2. ↑ rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 2767
3. ↑ Published by the Evangelical Press Association in Munich, Critique No. 182/1967, p. 251