The ambassador's wife
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The ambassador's wife |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1955 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hans Deppe |
| script |
Axel Eggebrecht Ilse Lotz-Dupont based on an idea by Rudolf Dortenwald |
| production | Hans Deppe |
| music | Werner Eisbrenner |
| camera |
Fritz Arno Wagner Walter Hrich |
| cut | Johanna Meisel |
| occupation | |
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The Ambassador's wife is a German social and espionage melodrama by Hans Deppe from 1955. The title roles are played by Antje Weisgerber and Hans Stüwe , while Paul Hubschmid and Ingrid Andree have taken on other leading roles .
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The ambassador's wife is Sybille Costa, who now runs a translation agency in Amsterdam and was once at the service of her future husband as an interpreter. Although she once had intimate contact with a man named John de la Croix, who was exposed as a spy, the ambassador Christian Lundvall is ready to marry Sybille. The Scandinavian will soon be transferred to Lisbon and would like to start a new diplomatic life there with Sybille. Lundvall is impressed by Sybille's openness to her past and sees no obstacle to a happy marriage in the long-term contact with that enemy agent. While the Scandinavian diplomat leaves for Portugal and moves into the diplomatic mission there, Sybille wants to get to know the ambassador's daughter, 18-year-old Andrea Lundvall, better, in order to introduce herself to her as her father's future.
The young woman is a happy, fun-loving girl who, in her naivete, falls in love with a man of all people and becomes his girlfriend, who had already dragged Sybille into misery with his double play. It is that devious spy John de la Croix who once again deliberately ensnares a certain woman in order to get to important state documents through her. His client is not named, but it is obviously a communist dictatorship beyond the Iron Curtain. His representative, the ambassador and legation counselor Mattusch, instructs de la Croix to steal and copy secret documents from the ambassador's safe. But this time John's feelings get in the way, because he falls seriously in love with the lively and dear Andrea and now has scruples about carrying out his assignment. Immediately there is an unexpected encounter between Sybille and John at a diplomatic ball - a scandal looms!
A tangible argument ensues between the two ex-lovers, in which, in response to Sybille's accusations, John assures that he is serious about Andrea this time and that he is purified. Ambassador Mattusch gets wind of de la Croix's fickleness, and since he has to fear that de la Croix threatens to break away, he puts him under massive pressure. The situation comes to a head when de la Croix, strongly pressed by Mattusch, has to choose between Andrea and his job. There is a scuffle with Sybille, in which the ambassador's wife shoots him. Seriously injured, the spy collapses, but still finds the strength to assure the arriving police that he has judged himself. When Ambassador Lundvall learns of the true circumstances from Sybille, he forgives her, and the two lovers can finally start into a carefree future.
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Production notes
The ambassador's wife was filmed from February 18 to March 26, 1955 in the CCC studios of Berlin-Spandau as well as in Lisbon and the surrounding area (exterior shots) and premiered on August 4, 1955 in Kassel. The Berlin premiere was on August 23 of the same year. On April 2, 1963, the film could be seen for the first time on German television (ARD).
Wilhelm Gernhardt was the production manager, Johannes J. Frank took over the production management. Willi A. Herrmann and Heinrich Weidemann designed the film structures, Trude Ulrich designed the costumes.
criticism
The film service says: "Solidly staged, well-tended colportage in its purest form."
Individual evidence
- ↑ The ambassador's wife. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 1, 2019 .
Web links
- The ambassador's wife in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The ambassador's wife at filmportal.de