The truth about Rosemary
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The truth about Rosemary |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1959 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 (1959), 12 (today) |
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| Director | Rudolf Jugert |
| script | J. Joachim Bartsch |
| production | Rapid-Film, Munich ( Wolf C. Hartwig Dieter Fritko ) |
| music | Willy Mattes |
| camera | Georg Krause |
| cut | Herbert Taschner |
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The Truth About Rosemarie is a German feature film melodrama from 1959, which varies the story about The Girl Rosemarie from the previous year. British actress Belinda Lee plays the title role, directed by Rudolf Jugert . In contrast to the Thiele film, the focus here is not on the criminal case, but rather on the social background that led to the descent and violent death of the noble whore.
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Federal Republic of Germany 1957. The Frankfurt prostitute Rosemarie Nitribitt has been murdered. The criminal police are feverishly investigating. The main suspect Salzmann has to be dismissed for lack of evidence, since then the investigating commissioner, who has no new lead, has been on the spot. When the youth and criminal psychologist Andreas Guttberg visits him, he explains to the astonished police officer that he is assuming that there must be two perpetrators. But Guttberg meant his comment differently: he thinks that in addition to the actual murderer, the victim is also partly to blame for her death. Her first decision after she was released from the educational institution where Rosemarie grew up turned out to be a mistake: At that time, she did not take the job that was offered to her, but instead decided to take action.
Guttberg now analyzes, illustrated in flashbacks, the life path of Nitribitt, from the release from the educational institution to its violent end. When she arrived in Frankfurt, she borrowed 80 marks from an older prostitute to buy appropriate clothes for a light girl. Although she quickly makes a profit with this entry fee, Rosemarie does not pay it back when she learns that her colleague has been admitted to the hospital, where she dies shortly afterwards. In order to get financially strong suitors, Rosemarie goes to catch customers in the relevant bars, even though she is acting against legal regulations. When the Nitribitt is almost picked up by a police check, a noble, elderly gentleman, the Russian businessman Alexander Woltikoff, comes to her aid. He simply claims that the lady in question would be his companion. Woltikoff turns out to be a gentleman who makes it clear to Nitribitt that he has fallen in love with her and would like to have her to himself. He's ready to look past her whore past, finance her own apartment and even buy her her own car. Woltikoff only demands that she remain loyal to him when he is on a business trip.
But Rosemarie can't get out of her skin and continues to earn money as a hooker. Rosemarie finds no satisfaction in this, she is constantly dissatisfied. Her suitors are sedate gentlemen from society such as Karl Riedendank, a man who also cheats on them. Others, on the other hand, like a Mr. Reimer, the epitome of petty-bourgeois "decency", only seek contact in order to receive information from her. Reimer is looking for his sister-in-law, who he believes could also have slipped into the "whore swamp". He gets very excited, screams and beats Rosemarie - all to get information from her. A young man, Andreas Guttberg's son Fred, on the other hand, who is sought after by Nitribitt, shows himself to be “morally stable” and disgusts her offer to sleep with him. When Woltikoff invites Rosemarie to Cannes and asks whether she has remained loyal to him, she lies to him. Woltikoff finds out the truth and separates from his partner in life. That same night he dies of a heart attack. Nitribitt immediately takes advantage of this fact to make claims on its inheritance, although as a non-relative, as expected, it has no prospect of success.
Production notes
The studio in Munich-Türkenstrasse served as the filming location. Hermann Warm designed the film structures that Bruno Monden carried out. Ludwig Spitaler was in charge of production, Otto Reinwald was one of two production managers .
During the examination by the FSK , one examiner argued that as a woman she felt offended, injured and degraded by the blatant presentation of deepest human absurdities. The committee did not approve the film in its current version, but only after three further templates and extensive cuts. The Truth About Rosemary was premiered on October 23, 1959 in several German movie theaters.
In comparison with Thiele's sensational drama The Girl Rosemarie , The Truth About Rosemarie is a staid and morally conservative reinterpretation of this story. Belinda Lee took over the Nitribitt role from Nadja Tiller . Both films are designed very differently. While Thiele's Rosemarie film is at the same time a satirical all-round attack against the saturated German economic boom society, The Truth about Rosemarie presents itself as a morally acidic accusation against the social behavior of nitribittism. Belinda Lee's Rosemarie, unlike Nadja Tiller's drawing of a smart grande dame of prostitution, is a depraved slut who, as the script of J. Joachim Bartsch insinuates , bears sole responsibility for her decline and death and who could never deny her primitive origins.
About Nitribitt
Rosemarie Nitribitt (1933–1957) was a well-known Frankfurt noble prostitute who was murdered at the end of October 1957 by an unknown person. The perpetrator was never caught; all films that deal with it are pure speculation.
Reviews
"The undertaking to capitalize again on the life of the faded love gift specialist Nitribitt was sought by the Hitler and moral film producer Wolfgang Hartwig (" Until five past twelve "," With Eva began sin ") through enormous overdoses of the cheapest patent morality forget to make. In contrast to the sleek satire "Das Mädchen Rosemarie", this late harvest lacks any socially critical allusion. Film writer Joachim Bartsch gets over the edge of disfiguring the loan lady into a diabolical fear of the German citizens, and director Rudolf Jugert, once celebrated as a Käutner student ("Untitled Film"), has faithfully filmed the stupid script. As a titular whore, the Englishwoman Belinda Lee can at best pretend with her attractive physicality that this is a matter of truth. "
“What is presented here, morally armed, under Jugert's direction, as a deterrent study of morals, is, in contrast to the other film adaptation that gave rise to the ambulant Rosemarie, a mediocre canvassing product. Well photographed, it spreads out over the last years of the life of that lady who turned a black market item into a branded product, so to speak, and thus took her share of the general prosperity on account. Belinda Lee makes the enterprising horizontal plausible and attractive. Next to her, among others: Nielsen, Dahlke, Walter Rilla - all of them respectable actors who one sees here with a little astonishment. The moral pretext is presented with dark pathos; however, one has the feeling that the film is consistently on the line here, on the line that clearly separates real morality from false. "
In the lexicon of the international film it says: "First announced as a scandal piece, then given a" clean "version with a moralizing accent, the speculative intention of the production is beyond doubt."
Individual evidence
- ^ CineGraph - Lexicon for German-language film - Georg Krause
- ↑ Jürgen Kniep: “No youth release!” Film censorship in West Germany 1949 - 1990 , Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2010, p. 149.
- ↑ see: Films 1959/61. Handbook VI of the Catholic film criticism. P. 187
- ↑ The Truth About Rosemary. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 8, 2015 .
Web links
- The truth about Rosemarie at filmportal.de
- The Truth About Rosemarie in the Internet Movie Database (English)