Forbidden Paradise (1958)
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| Original title | The forbidden paradise |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1958 |
| length | 78 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
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| Director |
Max Nosseck (as "Maximilian Meyer") |
| script | HG Bondy |
| production | Artur Brauner |
| music | Martin Böttcher |
| camera | Werner M. Lenz |
| cut | Annemarie Rokoss |
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The Forbidden Paradise is one of the first German nudist films made after 1945. Directed by the respected Max Nosseck , who only wanted to shoot this work under a pseudonym ("Maximilian Meyer"), a number of respected actors of that year worked in 1955, including Günter Pfitzmann and Jan Hendriks , despite the controversial style and several nude scenes at the time , Wolfgang Lukschy , Ingeborg Schöner and Siegfried Schürenberg . Georg Thomalla made the introductory comment .
action
Accompanied by introductory comments by Georg Thomalla , who is not visible in the picture , the film begins documentary recordings of German bathing pleasure from the past (during the imperial era around 1900) to now (1955) and traces the development of swimwear, starting with modest, high-necked full-body swimsuits including gender segregation to the little veiled bikini two-piece. Finally, the first representatives of the nudist movement are presented in Adam's costumes: in physical fitness exercises on the meadow, as in high-spirited running and jumping into the swimming lake, you can see young women as God made them.
Only now does the real action begin. The setting is a holiday colony. Men and women from the upper classes of society spend their holidays here, as do young people with smaller budgets. Some live in the luxury hotel, others prefer the campsite. The haute volee, with its philistine morality, does not like to be indignant, because it sees immorality sprouting up everywhere. When one morning five elderly people, including the Dettmann couple, approached a field camp with a rowboat from the lake in a voyeuristic manner, only to be morally angry, the participants plopped into the water. Because the campers did not want to be gawked at in their more revealing swimwear, some of the young people had unceremoniously capsized the boat. Mr. Dettmann is particularly outraged because his oh-so-good daughter Inge has joined these young people. Inge, on the other hand, has a secret relationship with Thomas Sund, the grandson of the holiday colony owner, from her parents. To avoid the moral sermon of her parents, Inge escapes to Thomas and his mother Margit. That is the following evening by Dr. Visited Theo Krailing, a childhood friend.
Krailing tells Thomas and Inge a story from his own youth in the emperor's time, the focus of which is Prof. Wetterstein, Thomas' grandfather. This Wetterstein was an extraordinarily liberal and open-minded teacher in his time (before 1914), who regularly offended the older dignitaries with his free spirit, especially with regard to the propagation of "airy" physical fitness and outdoor presentation. His greatest adversary at the time was the insidious as well as a false double standard preaching assessor Dr. Linde, who outwardly accusingly demands morality ("It starts with physical culture and how does it end? With the propagation of free love!") And leads the lawsuit against the professor, who allegedly acts against all morals, with his fellow corps A striking connection but goes to dubious places beyond the public gaze and chases after the industrialist daughter Elsa - but only for the reason that he is after her fat dowry, since his creditors are already on his heels. Krailing himself has to defend his support before his father, the school principal. After Krailing's excursion into the German moral history of the past, it turns out for all parties of the present that the values of the middle-class spa guests of today are not that far removed from those of nudists and nudists.
Production notes
The film The Forbidden Paradise , with which the idea of nudism should be propagated, was released from September to early October 1955 a. a. Filmed in Heiligensee and was scheduled for publication the following year. In view of the nude photos of young women frolicking and bathing, which could be seen in the first ten minutes of the film alone - framed by documentary recordings - the voluntary self-regulation (FSK) intervened fourteen times and demanded numerous cuts, which conveyed the real message through Thomalla's humorous accompanying comments a more permissive body conception heavily watered down. As a result, the premiere was delayed by three years. The Forbidden Paradise was released in cinemas on October 17, 1958 and met with fierce opposition, especially from the Catholic-conservative film critics - although in the end all the protagonists of the story acted unanimously “morally” thanks to the FSK cuts.
Martin Böttcher , who later became famous for his Karl May film compositions, composed one of his first film scores here. Hans Luigi designed the film structures.
Reviews
“A film that is primitive in terms of both staging and content, speculative and sloppy in a foolish way. What is unintentionally amusing from today's point of view is at the same time a remarkable insight into a chapter of early West German moral history. "
“At the time disreputable feature film that deals with a generation conflict using the example of changing bathing habits. Bare skin and a subtle strip insert should lure the masses into the movie theaters at the end of the 1950s, with Wolfgang Lukschy ('The Woman of My Dreams'), Günter Pfitzmann and Ingeborg Schöner also serving as the draft horses. Nowadays at best a nostalgic pleasure. "
Web links
- The Forbidden Paradise in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The forbidden paradise at filmportal.de