The brothel
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| Original title | The brothel |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1971 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
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| Director | Alfred Weidenmann |
| script | Alfred Weidenmann based on the novel of the same name (1966) by Henry Jaeger |
| production | Studio film, Bendestorf |
| music | Otto Schuett |
| camera | Ernst W. Kalinke |
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The Freudenhaus is a German film melodrama from 1970 from Alfred Weidenmann's whore milieu .
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This house of joy is less a house of joy than a home, accommodation and refuge for those who have missed out on things, screwed up lonely and sad abandoned people, freaks and losers of society all. Rosa is an aging curb swallow who finally longs for a middle-class existence, and Leopold Grün, a less than successful circus performer - his specialty: dog imitations - want to team up to escape the fear of old age and loneliness. Therefore, they marry without this marriage being more than an economic alliance for social and financial old-age security. Together they want to build up an existence as a landlord and then buy a suitable suburban house with an attached pub.
But it turns out to be more difficult than expected to find wealthy tenants. It was only when a few light girls moved in that Rosa had the idea of turning both apartment buildings into a house of bliss. Suddenly the shop is buzzing, customers - "respectable" citizens as well as marginalized people - come in abundance, and the initial financial difficulties are as if blown away. But Leopold turns out to be a lousy guy, a cheater and thief who betrays Rosa. For him, the brothel was just a stopover for his own happiness, and that was not planned on Rosa’s side. One day he disappeared and with him the proud sum of 70,000 DM.
Production notes
The house of joy was filmed from the second half of November until shortly before Christmas 1970 in the studios of Bendestorf just outside Hamburg and premiered on January 28, 1971 in the Regina cinema in Hanover.
Reviews
“There is not much joy in the house of joy that Alfred Weidenmann banned onto the screen based on Henry Jaeger's novel of the same name. In the shabby, dilapidated corner bar below the railway embankment, the outsiders of bourgeois society meet: control ladies, homosexuals, unfit for life, physically or mentally damaged. The attempt of Leopold and Rosas to create a secure existence for themselves fails because of their own inadequacy. The social context remains blurred. Fate breaks on Rosa's broad chest, and fate is always something bad. The film is worth seeing because of some good acting performances: Karin Jacobsen, Herbert Fleischmann, Gisela Peltzer and Gisela Trowe. "
“The director, who filmed another novel by Henry Jaeger after the“ fortress ”, may have had a hearty, socially critical portrayal of morals in mind, but his tragicomedy only leads to sentimental, kitschy insights into life itself: that whores dream of a bourgeois life "Citizens are perverse, blind people also have human emotions and everyone is lonely and grabs for a little bit of luck."
"Director Alfred Weidenmann, who also filmed Jaeger's" Fortress ", brings it [this story] into the picture as effectively as it is ... in the epoch of pornophilia: with swaying breasts, heavily swaying beds and all sorts of other bangs. (…) A couple of homosexuals, a couple of pimps, a midget and a number of marginalized citizens are involved, including an aged wife who cheats on her blind husband from the blind choir with another blind until one blind person denies the other Skull hits. And Rosa's daughter, who, not yet quite 16, has just come out of boarding school, is already teetering with it. In the end, the nasty Leopold runs away with the savings. Here once again fate strikes, and the tear in the whore's eye indicates: From the dream of civil happiness, because the circumstances are not like that. Weidenmann does not have any other conditions to offer in his by no means socially critical milieu study. He only says this: Even petty bourgeoisie can be perverted. And: prostitutes are people too. Whoever is without blemish among us should throw the first stone. He throw him at Willow Man. "
In Films 1971–76 the following can be read: "Brothel romance with backstairs character, which instead of characters shows numbers and otherwise glorifies the genre like an advertising film."
The lexicon of the international film says: "An entertainment film that tries to save the moral honor of the milieu and demanding character studies, but only leads to a sweet and tragic brothel romance."
Individual evidence
- ↑ filmportal.de names Hans Martin Majewski
- ^ Report in the Hamburger Abendblatt from November 28, 1970
- ^ Films 1971-76. Handbook IX of the Catholic film criticism. Cologne 1977, p. 98
- ↑ The brothel. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 25, 2015 .
Web links
- The House of Pleasure in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The house of joy - the original in Dortmund
- The house of joy at filmportal.de