The wives of Mr. S.

Movie
Original title	The wives of Mr. S.
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1951
length	95 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Paul Martin
script	Gustav Kampendonk Kurt Schwabach
production	Fritz Kirchhoff
music	Lothar Olias
camera	Fritz Arno Wagner
cut	Rosemarie Weinert
occupation
Sonja Ziemann : Euritrite Paul Hörbiger : Socrates Loni Heuser : Xanthippe Walter Giller : Plato Oskar Sima : Pericles Fita Benkhoff : Stabila Rudolf Platte : Musarion Heinz Engelmann : Philtas Willi Rose : Orantes Inge Stoldt : Asaria Karin Himboldt : Mrs. Sinon Nicolas Koline : Mr. Sinon Hubert von Meyerinck : Corinthian General Werner Finck : Cretan General Friedrich Domin : Macedonian General Hans Stiebner : Persian General Ursula Herking : a sibyl Ralf Wolter : Pachules Madelon Truss : Aglaia Josefine Bachert : Noschi Ewald Wenck : a Levantine Paul Westermeier : a sailor

The women of Mr. S. is a cabaret feature film directed by Paul Martin , who satirized some features of Germany under the four occupying powers in 1951.

action

The action was relocated - with great historical freedom - to the defeated and occupied Athens after the Peloponnesian War (404 BC), where Mr S. (= Socrates , played by Paul Hörbiger ) for covert personal reasons of the Athenian parliament and the four occupying powers proposes double marriage for men. Outwardly, he is concerned with looking after the many war widows. His deeper intention, however, is to free the beautiful slave Euritrite as a concubine alongside the quarrelsome Xanthippe.

This leads to entertaining entanglements. The four occupying powers of the Macedonians (= US-Americans), Persians (= Russians), Cretans (= English) and Corinthians (= French) are gently joked. On the advice of Socrates, the law was passed with an anonymous vote against, so that everyone at home could claim that it was him. Socrates could marry Euritrite. Xanthippe, however, favors the mutual infatuation of Euritrite and the Socrates pupil Plato (who out of sheer desperation had already invented platonic love ), and the other women also know how to spoil their husbands' joy in the new law. Socrates secretly discovers the two of them at tête-à-tête , wisely changes his mind, and his vote decides that the law will be abolished again.

To the movie

The women of Mr. S. was created exclusively in the workshops in Wiesbaden . It premiered on August 10, 1951 in Cologne . The film, which also required some understanding of the not always mindless jokes about ancient Greece, was a failure at the box office.

Ralf Wolter made his film debut here in a small role.

criticism

The lexicon of international film ruled that the film was “ a largely intellectually level cabaret comedy. "

literature

• Gustav Kampendonk : The women of Mr. S. A cheerful novel . The current film novel. Ardey Verlag, Dortmund 1951, 158 pp.

Web links

• The women of Mr. S. in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The women of Mr. S. at Filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ The women of Mr. S. In: Lexicon of the international film . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .