The fiery red baroness

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Movie
Original title The fiery red baroness
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1959
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Rudolf Jugert
script J. Joachim Bartsch
production Franz Seitz junior
music Rolf Wilhelm
camera Heinz Schnackertz
cut Ingeborg Taschner
occupation

and Werner Peters , Otto Wernicke . Monika Dahlberg , Paul Albert Krumm , Paul Bösiger , Willi Rose , Ilse Fürstenberg , Edelweiß Malchin , Angèle Durand , Edgar Wenzel , Egon Vogel , Hans W. Hamacher

Die feuerrote Baronesse is a German war and espionage film from 1959 by Rudolf Jugert with Joachim Fuchsberger and Dawn Addams in the leading roles.

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Theater of war Europe. On March 11, 1944, the British agent Captain Tailor, who thanks to his German mother speaks perfect German, is given the task of finding out how far the Germans are with the development of the atomic bomb . It is feared that Hitler could turn the fortunes of war in his favor at the last moment, especially since German radio propaganda regularly sounds of new miracle weapons . Tailor's contact person is said to be a nightclub singer named Szaga de Bor, who is also known as "The Fire Red Baroness". It is part of a show that is played every evening by a front theater troupe in front of soldiers of the Wehrmacht . Your colleague, the second agent of the Allies , was recently by the Germans arrested and allegedly shot. Tailor jumps over the Mark Brandenburg in a blackened parachute and lands near the village where the front theater troop entertains the soldiers in the inn . The wicked entertainer leaves an ambivalent impression on Tailor. He thinks it is possible that she works as a double agent . In order to prove her loyalty, however, the baroness passes important information to the agent.

In the morning after his landing in enemy territory, a state funeral for Urbaneck's fighter pilot takes place in Berlin . Behind the coffin walk the dead man's father, a colonel in the Wehrmacht, and the deceased's sister, Baroness Juliane. The old Urbaneck is a big animal in defense and as such is also involved in the development of new weapons as well as the shielding of the rocket launch pad and the Peenemünde test site . The colonel also heads an institute in Berlin-Dahlem that houses the only core research center in the Reich. The Allied spy, Ziebland, who was caught by the Abwehr , had already recognized the importance of this institute, but had been switched off before he could scout the facility. Tailor picks up on Ziebland's trail, which leads him to the Dahlem house of a professor of dentistry. Professor Reimer's niece is Juliane Urbaneck, who assists him. Tailor pretends to be first lieutenant in the German Air Force when he appears for dental treatment and quickly wins Julian's trust, not least because of his resemblance to her brother who died in the war. Colonel Urbaneck wants to get to know Tailor personally, who appears here under the cover name Oberleutnant Schmidt.

This contact is worth its weight in gold for Tailor, because the nuclear physicists from the neighboring institute can also be treated here. Tailor hopes to gain access to the institute's vault as soon as possible in order to gain insight into the research situation. Through Juliane, Tailor met a young physicist named Dr. Know Bertram, who as registrar has to organize the daily test results. Little does Tailor suspect that Juliane has long since fallen in love with him, which, beyond the purely human, also makes her very careless. Her father, the colonel , also notices how much Juliane feels drawn to the smart air force officer. The routine verification of Schmidts / Tailor's personal information leads to the British being exposed. Juliane is devastated and promises her father to set a trap for this fake Schmidt in order to hand him over to the German authorities. But she wanted to wait until she got information about his backers in order to be able to dig up the whole spy gang.

Tailor, who is purposefully pursuing his mission, has also started to feel something for Juliane in the meantime. Facing him, Juliane, despite all her good intentions, does not have the strength to hand him over to her own people and would rather kill him herself. In view of the hopelessness of his situation, Tailor admits everything to her. Juliane now urges the beloved enemy to give up his plans and to get to safety. And besides, he couldn't find out anything, because Dr. Bertram once confided in her that the physicists would not pass on any information to one another in order to make it impossible for the Nazis to build an atomic bomb. None of the German scientists want to bear this responsibility, a corresponding declaration of intent has been drawn up and is also in the safe. This revelation prompts Tailor to get hold of the documents from the institute vault in the naive hope that the Allied side will refrain from building nuclear weapons. Juliane is ready to help her lover. In the meantime the colonel has learned that his son, who allegedly fell in battle with the enemy, was in fact killed on German orders. Urbaneck is in shock. This gives Tailor and Juliane the time and opportunity to steal the documents from the safe. They fly out of Germany under cover of night in a hijacked Luftwaffe machine.

Production notes

The fiery red baroness was written in autumn 1958 and was premiered on February 20, 1959.

The female lead was originally supposed to be played by Eva Bartok . However, as the Hamburger Abendblatt reported at the beginning of 1959, it is said to have breached the contract, whereupon Dawn Addams was committed.

Arne Flekstad designed the film structures, costume designer Ina Stein made her film debut with this production. Hans Terofal served as an assistant to his producer brother Franz Seitz.

criticism

In the lexicon of the international film it says: “Espionage action in Berlin during the Second World War, which here again serves as a backdrop for adventure and easy love. (...) After all, the music stands out considerably from the march sound pattern that was used back then. "

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Report in the Hamburger Abendblatt from January 10, 1959
  2. ↑ The fiery red baroness. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 20, 2015 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 

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