The midnight venus
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The midnight venus |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1951 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ferdinand Dörfler |
| script | Werner Illing |
| production | Ferdinand Dörfler |
| music | Josef Niessen |
| camera | Franz Koch |
| cut | Erwin Niecke |
| occupation | |
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Midnight Venus is a 1950 German film fun game by Ferdinand Dörfler with Theo Lingen in the lead role.
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Master tailor Anton Schnippel believes that he can do more than he is allowed to show. Although he has an acceptable livelihood in his hometown Neustadt with his small craft business, he is more than dissatisfied. How would he like to show what he can do as an innovative couturier! When his extravagant designs, visions in the finest material, only earn scorn and ridicule in this provincial atmosphere, Mister Anton is fed up. He wants to leave Neustadt and, after a huge row, his better half behind as quickly as possible in order to find an appropriate audience in the big city that knows how to appreciate his creations. But hardly having arrived in a fashion house that he considers worthy enough, Director Meyer merely offers him the post of night watchman.
Frustrated that he has reached the place of his dreams, but is not allowed to let off steam artistically, he uses every opportunity in the company's own studio to get creative there. On his first night of work, Master Anton begins to dress the undressed mannequins with his own designs. One is excited. Contrary to expectations, there is then a real fashion show, which brings fame and recognition to the little tailor from Neustadt. In light disguise - with glued-on mustache and attached glasses - he has given himself a new ego. The response is overwhelming: his creations are met with great approval; the women screech with delight and even a cheetah carried on a leash will lose its temper for a short time. But one day the hustle and bustle becomes too much for Anton, and he returns ruefully to the familiar, homely small-town world in Neustadt, where he is reconciled with his former girlfriend.
Production notes
Midnight Venus was shot in the second half of 1950 in the Munich-Schwanthalerhöh film studio and in Munich (exterior shots). The premiere took place on March 1, 1951 in the Lenbach cinema in Munich; the Berlin premiere was on March 30 of the same year.
Director and producer Dörfler was also in charge of production. Erwin Tiebe and Franz Neumann designed the film buildings.
criticism
In the lexicon of the international film it says: "Extremely poor swank, which relies on banal grotesque comedy and flat personalities."
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Midnight Venus. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 1, 2020 .
Web links
- The midnight venus on doerfler-film.de
- The Midnight Venus in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The midnight venus at filmportal.de