The love carousel
The love carousel is an Austrian episode film from 1965, based on Arthur Schnitzler's " Reigen ". The directors were Rolf Thiele (segments Sybill and Angela ), Axel von Ambesser (segment Lolita ) and Alfred Weidenmann (segment Dorothea ). The plot was written by Paul Hengge ( Angela segment ), Rolf Olsen ( Lolita segment ), Herbert Reinecker ( Dorothea segment ) and Walter Schneider , who wrote the overall script.
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"Sybill"
The star conductor Stefan von Cramer uses a concert break to have a chat with his wife. She catches her lover; full of anger he forgets the true circumstances.
"Angela"
Mrs. Angela Claasen sleepwalking ; her nocturnal excursions lead her to a strange bed. Only gradually does her husband discover that there is no question of “sleepwalking”.
"Dorothea" ("The Primus")
With the help of the seductive Dorothea Parker, former students play a prank on the current Professor Hellberg, who was the best in her class at the time: They make him drunk and then make him believe that he has seduced the journalist. While they are having fun with prostitutes , he sleeps off his intoxication. When he tries to apologize to Dorothea, his innocence turns out; but now the two are actually getting closer.
"Lolita"
Peter is shy and inexperienced in love affairs; when a bathtub overflows, that changes when the sensual neighbor Lolita comes to the rescue.
History of origin
The episode film Das Liebeskarussell is based on an offer from the distributor Constantin to Karl Spiehs, who is still in the service of the Wiener Stadthalle , to produce seven films for her in two years. So Spiehs parted ways with the Wiener Stadthalle "on the best of terms" and produced his first own film. By dividing it into episodes, he was able to engage several stars "who couldn't argue about bigger roles." In retrospect, he admitted that he had "taken on a bit with the cast."
The shooting of the color film took place in June and July 1965 in Vienna. The interior shots were shot in the studios of Wien-Film in Sievering and in the studio of Dürer-Film in Salzburg . The film constructions came from Herta Hareiter . The costumes were designed by Charlotte Flemming and Edith Martisek. Lambert Hofer made the costumes . Eva Ebner (for Rolf Thiele and Axel von Ambesser) and Wieland Liebske (for Alfred Weidenmann) acted as assistant directors . First performance was on September 30, 1965.
Reviews
“Sketches with popular interpreters of their well-seen characters are varied and prepared in ascending order; [...] quickly accompanied by music, photographically passable. "
“In the design without any profile, the producers of the film show a tendency towards philistinism in their intellectual and moral attitude. To be rejected for young people and worthless and superfluous for adults. "
"Four ingenious and tasteless" comedy "episodes about" erotic "relationships between older men and younger women. Humor, irony and eroticism are absent across the board, instead a senile pseudo-morality prevails, which exposes the top-class film as primitive speculation with slippery situational comedy. "
Web links
- The Liebeskarussell in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 1st episode: Sybill. In: filmportal.de . German Film Institute , accessed on October 11, 2016 .
- ↑ 2nd episode: Angela. In: filmportal.de . German Film Institute , accessed on October 11, 2016 .
- ↑ 3rd episode: Dorothea. In: filmportal.de . German Film Institute , accessed on October 11, 2016 .
- ↑ 4th episode: Lolita. In: filmportal.de . German Film Institute , accessed on October 11, 2016 .
- ↑ Roman Schliesser: The super nose. Karl Spiehs and his films , Verlag Carl Ueberreuter, Vienna 2006, p. 81
- ↑ The love carousel . (No longer available online.) In: old.filmarchiv.at. Paimann's film lists , No. 2968_1, October 6, 1965, archived from the original on October 11, 2016 ; accessed on October 11, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Review No. 391/1965
- ↑ The love carousel. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 11, 2016 .
