The nightspot for the silver moon
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The nightspot for the silver moon |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1959 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Wolfgang luck |
| script | Wolfgang Glück Peter Loos August Rieger |
| production |
Ernest Müller August Rieger |
| music | Charly Niessen |
| camera | Walter cloth |
| cut | Eleonore Kunze |
| occupation | |
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Das Nachtlokal zum Silbermond is a German melodrama from 1959 by Wolfgang Glück with a number of young actors in leading roles, including Marisa Mell in her first leading role.
action
Five young girls dream of their great happiness, of a star career as a dancer or singer. They are all quite well built but also quite naive when a dodgy agency promises them the fulfillment of their dreams and hires them as dancers for the ominous "Night Club of the Silver Moon". This dive bar is somewhere in the Middle East, where many a simple-minded European has disappeared into the clutches of alleged girl traffickers. It quickly becomes clear that the agency has not really good plans for the young women: When it turns out that some of the girls do not have much talent for lascivious dance, the agency operator Magali allegedly wants to send them back to Europe. Stranded in the Orient, with no finances and no prospect of employment, the young girls are exposed to the arbitrariness of Magalis and their local business partner Jussuf. The girls' passports were also taken from them.
As expected, a highly immoral offer is made: You could also settle the debts incurred as a result of management costs (equipment, transport, contractual obligations, etc.) in a different way. After some back and forth, some of the desperate girls can be beaten into performing as striptease dancers or serving as table ladies for more mature and at least financially potent gentlemen. On site, the local police in the form of the sedate inspector Elam have long since kept an eye on the half-silk establishment and the activities of Magalis and Yusuf. It is believed that the nightspot for the Silver Moon is a hotbed of crime, more specifically: that this smoky tavern must be a trading point for the jewelery trade. There is also a secret workshop where stolen diamonds are cut. So far it has not been possible to prove this suspicion, but now the state power is planning to strike. Meanwhile, the girls get more and more distressed and begin to feel like prostitutes. Before it can come to an extreme, European women are set free.
Production notes
The Silbermond night club was built in Vienna in spring 1959 and premiered on June 2, 1959 in the Capitol Cinema in Cologne.
Felix Smetana created the film structures . Ernesto Bitter was a choreographer.
useful information
Similar to the B-strip Girls for the Mambo-Bar , shot by the same director immediately afterwards, Das Nachtlokal zum Silbermond also picks up on the genre of girl-trafficking films, which has been popular since the beginning of the 20th century (first production in 1906 in Denmark). Two years earlier, Glück had revitalized this type of film with his staging of Girls at Risk.
criticism
The film service says: “Young women let themselves be engaged as dancers for an oriental nightspot and find out that something else is expected of them there than art. The whole thing is a pretext for frivolous "show numbers". "
Individual evidence
- ↑ The night club for the silver moon. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 24, 2019 .