The ideal woman

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Movie
Original title The ideal woman
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1959
length 105 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Josef von Báky
script Walter Forster
Joachim Wedekind
Hildegard Hamm-Brücher
production Utz Utermann
music Georg Haentzschel
camera Werner Krien
cut Gertrud Hinz
occupation

The ideal woman is a German feature film from 1959 by Josef von Báky . Walter Forster and Joachim Wedekind wrote the script with the help of Hildegard Hamm-Brücher . The main roles are cast with Ruth Leuwerik , Martin Benrath and Boy Gobert . The work had its world premiere on August 25, 1959.

action

The lawyer Fanny Becker holds the mayor's office of the city of Rosenburg with great success. With the death of the last owner of the castle of the same name, the once so magnificent, but now run-down building passes into the ownership of the city. Fanny Becker wants to fix it up again and expand it into a festival theater; Opposition leader Axel Jungk, however, shows no understanding of this. He and his colleagues would rather sell the castle to an industrial company in order to replenish the city treasury with the proceeds. Such differences would be nothing special if the brawlers Becker and Jungk weren't a couple. So the argument goes on in the bedroom at night.

When the mayor pays a visit to the municipal kindergarten, she is infected with mumps . It doesn't take long either until your significant other is affected by the same (children's) disease. The doctor prescribes the two of them a recovery cure that they spend on the Côte d'Azur . They secretly tie the knot in Monte-Carlo , and now they want to spend their honeymoon here too.

But Fanny is too stuck in her job that she can never switch off completely. When she reads on a poster that the world-famous conductor Jaroslaw Martini is giving a concert here, she immediately gets in touch with him in order to win him over for a concert in Rosenburg. As soon as the performance is over, she sends her husband back to the hotel to chat with the artist for a while. But the little while is not enough: Meetings with Martini are increasing, and Fanny cannot miss a trip in his motor yacht. The whole thing seems like a violent flirtation to her husband.

Back in Rosenburg again, Fanny tries hard to get her husband to understand. But because the conductor, who has arrived in Rosenburg, is now uncovering his feelers for the mayor, Axel is almost bursting with anger. Divorce follows only 15 months of marriage.

With a cleverly designed trick, Fanny believes that she has secured the majority of the city council for her music weeks in the castle. But suddenly a single voice is missing. A heated debate ensues. Axel Jungk ended this in one fell swoop by suddenly voting in favor of the mayor's plan, to everyone's surprise. When the secret of the secret marriage also becomes public, the indignation of Axel's group colleagues increases to the boiling point. Married, close relatives and people by law are not allowed to belong to the same parliament according to the municipal code.

After the couple has reconciled, the second marriage is planned.

Production notes

The outdoor shots were taken in the Lower Bavarian town of Landshut , at the nearby Trausnitz Castle and in Monte Carlo, the indoor shots in the Bavaria Film studios in Geiselgasteig . The buildings were created by the film architect Fritz Maurischat . Margot Schönberger contributed the costumes.

criticism

The lexicon of international films doesn't think much of the film : "Ruth Leuwerik tries to pull the irrelevant material into a comedy, but in the long run the confusion prevails."

source

Program for the film: Illustrierte Film-Bühne , Vereinigte Verlagsgesellschaft Franke & Co. KG, Munich 2, number 04900

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lexicon of international films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 from 1988, p. 1736