The other smile

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Movie
Original title The other smile
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1978
length 122 minutes
Rod
Director Robert van Ackeren
script Joy Markert
Peter Stripp
production Peter Märthesheimer
Bavaria Atelier; WDR
music Peer ravens
camera Jürgen Juerges
cut Hannes Nikel
occupation

The other smile is a German television film by Robert van Ackeren . It premiered on March 1, 1978 on TV on ARD .

action

Paul is an ambitious liquor dealer with a wife (Irma) who is constantly ill. Ellen - Irma's friend - is constantly taking over the position of Irma as the "other smile".

criticism

Hans C. Blumenberg judged the film in ZEIT :

" The other smile from Robert Van Ackeren, the best film by the director of 'Harlis' and 'Belcanto' so far: a quiet and cruel study of petty-bourgeois vampirism, the exchange value of goods and the people who deal with them."

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Falling back into the old stereotypes of roles . In: Die Zeit , No. 8/1979