The beautiful Lurette (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The beautiful Lurette |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1960 |
| length | 82 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
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| Director | Gottfried Kolditz |
| script | Werner Bernhardy |
| production | DEFA |
| music | Jacques Offenbach |
| camera | Erich Gusko |
| cut | Hildegard Tegener |
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The beautiful Lurette is a German operetta film adaptation by DEFA by Gottfried Kolditz from 1960 .
action
Paris in 1764: Laundress Lurette is swarmed by men, but loves the simple carpenter Campistrel. He is currently building a wax figure parody of Madame de Pompadour with his friends , which he wants to carry through the streets at the upcoming carnival festival. With her he wants to denounce the power of the Pompadour over the king and their wastefulness. Until it is completed, however, the men have to hide the figure not only from the eyes of the soldiers, but also from the secret police in the person of Malicorne. This is achieved, among other things, through the use of the laundresses who turn the men's heads - much to the displeasure of head laundress Marcelline, who was once seduced and abandoned by a nobleman and therefore wants to keep her girls away from the men.
Lurette had noticed the Duke of Marly when she was delivering the laundry. He offered to accompany her home and Lurette accepted to make Campistrel jealous. The Duke has now fallen in love with Lurette, but knows that Campistrel would not leave Lurette to him. With Malicorne he thinks about how he could still own Lurette. An arrest is out of the question, but both men want to take advantage of the carnival. Lurette is to be married to Marly as a carnival princess as part of a carnival wedding. However, the wedding should be carried out by a real Abbé without Lurette's knowledge and thus be legally binding. Lurette, on the other hand, is only supposed to appear to be Marly's wife and in reality to become the king's new favorite mistress, replacing Madame Pompadour, who is a thorn in the side of Malicorne.
Malicorne appears in the laundry and recognizes Marcelline as the laundress whom he once seduced. He locks her in the cellar unnoticed and then announces that Lurette has been chosen as the carnival princess for the Duke of Marly. Campistrel jealously poses in front of Lurette, who has just agreed to go to Marly. Since the trapped Marcelline draws attention loudly, Malicorne flees with Lurette in the car to Marly's mansion. Lurette is surprised because she thought the other laundresses were invited to Marly's. In the Marlys manor, Lurette is laughed at by the carnival guests present because of her laundresses' clothes. She makes it clear to Marly that she wants to leave immediately, but hesitates when she sees the beautiful dress that Marly has got for her. She changes clothes and goes to the party with Marly dressed up. Campistrel followed her and mingled with the guests without being recognized. When he sees Lurette so transformed, he takes off his mask and reproaches her for selling herself to the fine people. Lurette, angry, flees back to the changing room and changes clothes. Campistrel has the laundresses and his colleagues fetched. Outside the manor house he suddenly hears the Abbé calling. He was locked in a room where the later wedding ceremony is supposed to take place, but suffers because he does not get alcohol. Campistrel gets in with him and brings him plenty of alcohol. So in the end he learns the plan from Marly and Malicorne.
The laundresses appear to free Lurette. Marcelline begins the hunt for Malicorne while the laundresses get Lurette out of her room, who has not given in to Marly's wooing. Marly is apparently defeated, but asks for the harmless carnival wedding. However, the Abbé turns out to be Campistrel, who asks Lurette at the wedding if she is ready to become the king's mistress. Then he takes off his disguise and hits Malicorne in the face with the marriage contract. Lurette realizes that Campistrel has saved her from great harm and happily falls on his neck. Marcelline, on the other hand, blames herself for mourning the wrong Malicorne for so many years. Marly wants to have Campistrel arrested, but his men storm the mansion with the figure of Pompadour. The laundresses mock the aristocrats present with a song and at the end all ordinary workers move out of the hall together into the open air.
production
The beautiful Lurette is based on the operetta of the same name by Jacques Offenbach, which premiered after his death in 1880. In contrast to the original, Campistrel is active against the authorities and ends up meeting with Lurette, who, however, prefers the Duke of Marly in the operetta. The film was made in 1960 in the Babelsberg studios . The costumes were created by Hans Kieselbach , the film structures are by Alfred Tolle .
The film premiered on December 25, 1960 in the Berlin Colosseum and in the Charlott in Potsdam . With over three million viewers, Die Schöne Lurette is one of the most successful DEFA productions. On September 8, 1961, the film ran on DFF 1 for the first time on East German television and was broadcast on August 3, 1996 on ORB on German television. Icestorm released the film on DVD in 2009.
synchronization
The singing of the actors was dubbed, opera singer Josef Burgwinkel, who played the Abbé, was the only one to sing his role himself.
| role | actor | Singer |
|---|---|---|
| Lurette | Evelyn Cron | Ingeborg Wenglor |
| Campistrel | Jirí Papez | Martin Ritzmann |
| duke | Otto Mellies | Charles Geerd |
| Malicorne | Hannjo Hasse | Leo Wistuba |
| Marcelline | Marianne Wünscher | Gertrude Stilo |
| rose | Lore Frisch | Sieglinde Goßmann |
criticism
The contemporary critics praised the equipment of the film, which turned the Offenbach operetta into a "pompous big screen edition". The "socially critical elements" that seem artificial were criticized.
The film-dienst called Die Schöne Lurette "superficial social criticism in a deliberately elaborate, but basically largely unimaginative and unsuccessful film adaptation of Jacques Offenbach's operetta."
literature
- F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 513-514 .
Web links
- The beautiful Lurette in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The beautiful Lurette at filmportal.de
- The beautiful Lurette at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ See progress-film.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ See insidekino.de
- ↑ Rudi Strahl in: Filmspiegel , No. 11, 1961, p. 6.
- ^ Werner Wolf, Hans-Dieter Tok: Operetta film after Offenbach . In: Deutsche Filmkunst , No. 4, 1961, pp. 113–114.
- ↑ The beautiful Lurette. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
