The lady
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The lady |
| Country of production |
Germany France |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1964 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Hans Albin Peter Berneis |
| script | Peter Berneis |
| production | Hans Albin for Hans Albin-Film (Munich) and Comptoir d'Expansion Cinématographique (CEC) (Paris) |
| music | Hermann Thieme |
| camera | Klaus von Rautenfeld |
| cut | Claus from Boro |
| occupation | |
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The Lady is a German-French social melodrama from 1964 with the Swedish Bergman star Ingrid Thulin in the title role.
action
Nadine Anderson, an elegant upper-class woman, leads a luxury and stand-up marriage that is infinitely boring. Her husband Eliot is Sweden's ambassador to Athens and, with his sexual disinterest, causes severe sexual frustration for Nadine. Because this marriage is only made for appearances, in truth Eliot is only interested in men and has more than just one eye on his young, crisp secretary Martin Troge. Nadine is no longer willing to continue this deeply unsatisfactory life of a constant inner void. She thirsts for sex, including dirty sex. And so she drives night after night through the dim alleys of Piraeus, the port of Athens, always looking for “whole guys” who give her everything that her husband is neither able nor willing to do. Soon the lady threatens to slip more and more in her search for meaning. During the day she is the classy society lady, but in the evening Nadine lives out her desire for wild guys and works as a prostitute with her own room.
One night there she met Nikos, a dock worker, who exemplarily corresponds to her idea of a “whole man”. Both happiness would not be spoiled if his sister Elektra, also a prostitute and also a striptease dancer, had not found out Nadine's true identity. She senses the big business and tries to blackmail the ambassador's wife. Elektra finally wants to leave her miserable existence behind and demands that Nadine employ her as a maid for a decent salary. Nadine bows to this emphatically expressed wish, and Elektra now becomes part of the human embassy inventory - much to Eliot Anderson's displeasure, because his secretary Martin falls in love with the racy, Mediterranean beauty of almost the same age during a yacht excursion. Eliot then immediately dismisses Elektra and plans, in order not to lose Martin to the girl, a trip in which his secretary should accompany him so that Elektra disappears from his field of vision.
In an outburst of anger, the fired Elektra reveals to her former employer that his wife is not only cheating on him and having an affair with her brother Nikos, but also of the lady's other extramarital activities; in short: that Nadine will buy. For the homosexual husband, this opening is far less bad than expected; he just wants the appearance to be preserved in the future. And so he allows Nadine to continue the affair with her virile dock worker on the pretext of recovering from the dolcefarniente in a Swiss sanatorium. Beside herself with anger that her intrigues are unsuccessful, Elektra goes to her brother and tells him that his hooker friend is really the wife of the Swedish ambassador to Greece. This revelation leads to a violent argument between the siblings, as a result of which Nikos beats Elektra violently. The young girl dies in the process. The relationship with Nadine is over and the lady leaves him.
production
The Lady originated largely in Greece. The seldom shown film passed the FSK examination on September 25, 1964 and was premiered on October 2, 1964. In later years the strip was exploited again under the lurid title Countess Porno von Ekstasien . The buildings were designed by Max Mellin and implemented by Tibor Rednas.
Reviews
"Threepenny story that does not live up to its artistic standards and is fundamentally unacceptable."
"Ambitiously designed film colportage."
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Lady. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
Web links
- The Lady in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The lady at filmportal.de