Ladies Choice (1953)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Ladies choice |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1953 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | EW Emo |
| script |
Heinz Bruck Gustav Kampendonk |
| production | Fono-Film GmbH, Berlin-Munich |
| music | Heino Gaze |
| camera | Bruno Timm |
| cut | Hermann Leitner |
| occupation | |
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Damenwahl is a German comedy film by EW Emo from 1953 .
action
Mathilde Kratzer is the owner of the amusement bar bei Mathilde . Her roommate Max also has a financial stake in the restaurant, but only as a silent partner, which is why he either acts as Mathilde's servant or as a doorman. He would like to turn the bar into At Max and Mathilde's , but Mathilde would rather give him back the money he had invested. However, because she cannot do this, Max is in financial difficulties and is persistently wanted by the tax investigators.
One day Mathilde receives a telegram from her daughter from America. Marion is now 19 years old and announces to her mother that she will visit her. Mathilde is desperate because her daughter believes that she is the owner of a hotel. The case of Mathilde , however, is just a dance hall, where the women call the shots and the men pick by Damenwahl. Max learns from Mathilde that Marion is the daughter of the waiter Herbert Blank. He left her once and doesn't know that he has a daughter. Mathilde doesn't want to change this either, especially since she hasn't seen Herbert for 20 years. Herbert, in turn, has a detective look for Mathilde, but meets her by chance in her bar. Although he is wealthy, he pretends to be penniless when Mathilde tries to throw him out. She feels sorry and hires him as a waiter. Over several corners, Herbert learns from his daughter and also that she will arrive at the airport the next day. Not only is he interested in this, but also the impoverished Baron Egon von Latten. He plans to reorganize himself financially by marrying Mathilde or Marion.
Marion appears and turns out to be a young beauty, with whom Max falls in love. He reacts all the more surly when Baron von Latten appears unannounced and Marion makes court. He and Mathilde send von Latten away at 6 p.m., who is arranging to go to the cinema with Marion. Before Marion, both of them claim to go to sleep at 6 p.m. due to a cure. Marion is surprised, but also goes to bed early. Mathilde and Max hurry to the pub in the evening. Max cancels von Latten from going to the cinema with a disguised voice and makes an appointment as Marion with von Latten in a small restaurant. Then he pretends to be von Latten on the phone in front of Marion and arranges to meet her in a bar. While von Latten waits in vain for Marion, Max joins Marion, disguised as Henri de Pernot, at Marion's next table. Both start a conversation and at the end he accompanies Marion to Mathilde's house. The next day she goes on a traditional boat tour with her local guests, with Max staying at home as Marion's guardian. He reappears as Henri de Pernot and drives into the countryside with Marions. Here both are surprised by Mathilde, who is promptly at the same place with her guests. She recognizes Max and he and Marion flee home by car. It turns out that Marion recognized him long ago. Both confess their love.
Mathilde is outraged that Max has abused her trust. She doesn't even listen to an explanation, but throws Max out. He turns to Herbert for help and asks him, as father, to give his consent for him and Marion to marry. He doesn't have any money, but only because he has high debts, of which Mathilde is not least to blame. Herbert secretly settles the debt. He also secretly buys Für Mathilde , since Mathilde has decided not to continue running the restaurant. Mathilde, on the other hand, is astonished and indignant to suddenly find her waiter dressed in fine thread at the bar of the restaurant. Only now does she find out that the buyer of her bar is Herbert. He also gave the bar away to Marion and Max, who can finally have his name in the bar title. Suddenly Mathilde is only a guest in the restaurant. When Herbert asks her to dance, she counters: Since there is a female choice, she asks him.
production
Ladies Choice was filmed during the Berlin Film Festival . The studio of CCC-Film in Berlin-Spandau served as a studio , the outdoor shots were taken in Berlin-Wannsee. The film structures were created by Rolf Zehetbauer and Albrecht Hennings . Hermann Schwerin and Werner Ludwig acted as production managers . The film premiered on August 21, 1953 in Stuttgart and was shown on November 16, 1964 on DFF 1 on GDR television.
criticism
For Der Spiegel , the choice of women was "deliberate, but at least not amateurish slapstick". “Lean comedy; German standard comedians cavort in the no man's land of the farce ”, however, judged the film service . Cinema called the film a "thin farce".
Web links
- Ladies' choice in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ladies choice at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b New in Germany: women's choice . In: Der Spiegel , No. 3449, 1953, p. 36.
- ^ Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , pp. 316 f.
- ↑ Women's choice. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See cinema.de