The Empress of China
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The Empress of China |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1953 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Steve Sekely |
| script | Vineta Bastian-Klinger |
| production | Artur Brauner |
| music | Michael Jary |
| camera | Kurt Hasse |
| cut | Hermann Leitner |
| occupation | |
and Erich Fiedler , Ursula Voß , Ruth Stephan , Herbert Weissbach , Maria Zach , Gerd Vespermann | |
The Empress of China is a German film game from 1953 by the Hungarian Hollywood director Steve Sekely , whose only German post-war production this was, with Grethe Weiser in the title role.
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Aunt Clementine is a bossy, big man-addicted and sometimes tyrannical pain in the ass. When this model copy of a terrifying and unwanted relative came to visit her brother, the widowed neurologist Dr. Stansberg, announces and then also lets it through that she intends to settle here permanently, good advice is expensive. First of all, brother Stansberg, pale in horror, moves in with his lady of the heart, Charlotte Kersten. The nerve-wracking neurologist instructs his daughter Viktoria to fight the human "dragon". Viktoria is supposed to get rid of Auntie as soon as possible, whereupon the young woman develops a brilliant idea and hires a group of jugglers and actors who are supposed to transform the father's villa into a madhouse with completely over-the-top ideas and spinning.
It takes some time for die-hard Clementine to realize that this is just a lunatic asylum. One of the "inmates" claims, for example, that he lived 3,000 years ago and was poisoned by Clementine, the reincarnation of the then Empress of China. Slowly but surely, Auntie's nerves are sore in the face of such wonderful contemporaries. She is already thinking of leaving when she realizes that one wants to drive her deliberately insane and turns the tables. Now she plays the “madman” and tries to scare Viktoria and her comedians. Only her long-standing, shy admirer, Professor Mirrzahler, can tame the old woman and, through his good deed, brings peace back to the (crazy) house.
Production notes
The shooting of The Empress of China took place between July 22nd and August 15th, 1953 in the CCC studios in Berlin and with outdoor shots in the Vila Monhem on Schwanenwerder. The premiere took place on September 25, 1953 in the Capitol-Kino in Münster and in Hameln. The Berlin premiere was on October 23 of the same year.
Walter H. Guse was production manager. Kurt Herlth and Karl Schneider designed the film structures, Maria Brauner the costumes. Jens Keith took care of the choreography, Lys Assia and Ilja Glusgal sang . Bruno Balz provided the texts for Michael Jary's composition.
Reviews
On the occasion of a television broadcast in 1990, Der Spiegel located “Familiar interaction behavior in the fifties” in the film, while Cinema -Online found Grethe Weiser's performance briefly “brilliant”.
In the lexicon of international films it says: "Poor comedy for the most modest entertainment demands."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Der Spiegel of February 5, 1990
- ↑ The Empress of China on cinema-online
- ↑ The Empress of China. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 1, 2020 .
Web links
- The Empress of China in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Empress of China at filmportal.de