Your caresses

Movie
Original title	Your caresses
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1969
length	92 minutes
Age rating	FSK 18
Rod
Director	Herbert Vesely Peter Schamoni
script	Esteban López
production	Peter Schamoni
music	Roland Kovac
camera	Michael Ballhaus
cut	Heidi Genée
occupation
Doris Kunstmann : Christine Ulli Lommel : Stefan Bernhard Wicki : father Irene Söderberg : Monika Charlotte Kerr : mother Heinz Meier : Uncle Maria Schamoni : Aunt Maria Ginny Gottschalk : yacht owner

Your tenderness is a German feature film from 1969. The film was based on the novel Like Brother and Sister and Other Bitter Things by Esteban López , who also wrote the screenplay.

action

The siblings Christine and Stefan grew up separately due to the divorce of their parents and did not know each other before. They only get to know each other as adults. Christine lives in Barcelona , while Stefan lives with his mother in Baden-Baden . When Christine visits Baden-Baden, the two siblings get closer. Christine is aware that she is entering into a relationship that is illegal and pretends that it is only a very close sibling relationship and not an intimate love relationship. She is torn between dislike and affection for the brother and also enters into other relationships in order to suppress the love for the brother. When she finally decides for the relationship, he marries the Swede Monika.

background

The Austrian director Herbert Vesely started directing this film and Peter Schamoni took over the direction from him during the production.

Reviews

• Lexicon of international film : Peter Schamoni's second feature-length film, an adaptation of a novel without a convincing reference to reality. Paper dialogues and chic pictures from Baden-Baden, Barcelona, Ibiza rule .

• Evangelischer Filmbeobachter (Review No. 495/1969): Not portrayed as a tragic and lively emotional fringe situation, but rather from a distance, as a cool, melancholy literary model. The perfect color recording technique is particularly remarkable. For adults.

literature

• Esteban López : Like brother and sister and other bitter things. Stories (original title: Als broer en zuster, pijnlijke vertellingen ). German by Helmut Homeyer . Melzer, Darmstadt 1967, 182 pp.

Web links

• Your tenderness in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Your tenderness at Filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Your tenderness. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 17, 2017 .