The gentlemen
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The gentlemen |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1965 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Rolf Thiele Franz Seitz Alfred Weidenmann |
| script |
Gregor von Rezzori Joe Lederer Kurt Heuser Paul Hengge Georg Laforet based on the illustrated novel of the same name by Angelika Schrobsdorff |
| production | Franz Seitz for Franz Seitz Filmproduktion, Munich |
| music | Bernd Kampka |
| camera | Wolf Wirth |
| occupation | |
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Die Herren is a German episode film from 1964/65 by Rolf Thiele , Alfred Weidenmann and Franz Seitz junior , who also produced.
action
The focus of the action is the young journalist Evelyne. The young lady has already had a multifaceted past life and got to know many a man better - from simple boys to very rich manufacturers. Bored by her job, at the suggestion of a dynamic publisher named Blech, whom she met at a conference of various writers and other intellectuals in Travemünde , she began to write down her amorous adventures of the past in the hope of being able to land a slippery, literary sensation. She also ends up in bed with tin. He becomes pregnant, but Blech leaves her. In the following episodes, Evelyne looks back at her life and recalls her affairs.
Evelyne shows herself to be a precocious fruit at an early stage, when she hooks up with the slightly older farm boy Boris during a wedding in the country. As a young woman, she begins an affair with a much older colonel in the US occupation army. This love affair also shatters, and Evelyne ends up in the arms of a blasé young aristocrat, a veritable count by trade. But this affair also has no future, and so the blonde siren finally flees into the arms and bed of the honest Swiss watch manufacturer Pflügeli. He is willing and a true gentleman, but his sexual manhood leaves much to be desired.
Production notes
The Men was written between June 1964 and March 1965 and was premiered on August 25, 1965 in Frankfurt am Main. The film consists of the following five episodes:
- Episode 1: The Intellectuals . Director: Rolf Thiele. Shooting in September 1964 in the Bavaria studio in Munich-Geiselgasteig. With Susy Andersen and Mario Adorf.
- Episode 2: The Peasants . Director: Rolf Thiele. Shooting in June / July 1964 in the Bavaria studio in Munich-Geiselgasteig and in Yugoslavia. With Susy Andersen, Bruno Dietrich, Ulrich Beiger, Gregor von Rezzori.
- Episode 3: The Soldiers . Director: Rolf Thiele. Shooting in October 1964 in the Bavaria studio in Munich-Geiselgasteig. With Astrid Frank and Peter van Eyck.
- Episode 4: The Aristocrats . Director: Franz Seitz. Shooting in November 1964 in the Bavaria Atelier in Munich-Geiselgasteig and in Seefeld Castle on the Ammersee. With Letitia Roman and Friedrich von Thun.
- Episode 5: The Citizens . Director: Alfred Weidenmann. Shooting in March 1965 in the studio in Hamburg-Wandsbek. With Letitia Roman and Paul Hubschmid.
Susy Andersen (* 1940), completely unknown in Germany , who played the blonde Evelyne in the first two episodes, is an Italian actress who was filming intensively in her home country at the time (1960s).
Willy Zeyn junior was in charge of production . The film structures were designed by Robert Stratil , the costumes by Maleen Pacha . Petrus Schloemp assisted head cameraman Wolf Wirth .
Actually, the shooting of the entire film should be finished in 1964. However, since Alfred Weidenmann did not deliver his episode on time due to scheduling problems ( shots in three-quarter time ), Die Herren could not be released until the summer of 1965.
criticism
The film was almost consistently panned by the national film critics as a dingy old man's fantasy. Below is a small selection:
In its edition of September 3, 1965, Die Zeit wrote: “The key novel by Angelika Schrobsdorff was, it was inevitable, filmed by Rolf Thiele; Alfred Weidenmann, who shares Thiele's ignorance and bad taste, and Georg Laforet have seconded. With a bland attack against intellectuals in general and Group 47 in particular, Thiele starts the round (...) The subtitles in particular - The farmers, The soldiers, The aristocrats, The citizens - simulate a sociological accuracy around which Thiele and Co. don't even bother; the folkloric tableau of rough country life and backward rite of deflowering lacks references to any reality, just like the templates of the rampant occupation soldiers, the feeble-minded nobility and the money-doesn't-matter-industrialist. The story of the West German post-war film is one more embarrassment richer. "
The film service found: “German film-goers are used to some intellectual self-pollution from Rolf Thiele. It is astonishing, however, that Georg Laforet and Alfred Weidenmann want to imitate the 'chiefotics of German film' in terms of filthy attitudes. "
The lexicon of international films writes: “Four episodes told in flashbacks introduce four men - from the hot-blooded Yugoslav to the impotent Swiss - who always only want one thing. What the directors wanted, however, remains unclear. Because they constantly squint at the FSK scissors, they can neither get to the point of their satirical approaches nor their speculative eroticism. One degenerates into malicious joking, the other into dull slipperiness. "
Films 1965–70 wrote: "Partly funny, part serious, episode film made by three directors with a dirty disposition."
Even the Protestant film observer does not leave a good hair on the strip: “Embarrassment, creative hardship that only leads to amateurism, and ignorance reflect the usual reflection of poor German film conditions. Completely unnecessary. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Contrary to what is stated in filmportal.de and imdb, Letitia Roman does not play Evelyne at the side of Peter van Eyck in this episode
- ↑ Contrary to what is stated in filmportal.de and imdb, Astrid Frank does not play Evelyne at Paul Huschmid's side in this episode
- ↑ According to filmportal.de, this episode is said to have been shot in Travemünde (external shoot). But since the Travemünde episode was filmed with Adorf, this information seems more than questionable.
- ↑ The gentlemen in zeit.de
- ^ WV in film-dienst, No. 37, from September 15, 1965
- ^ The Gentlemen in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on December 31, 2013.
- ^ Films 1965-70, Volume 1, JP Bachem Verlag in Cologne, 1971, p. 133.
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 347/1965, p. 613
Web links
- The gentlemen in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The gentlemen at filmportal.de