An army of Gretchen

Movie
Original title	An army of Gretchen
Country of production	Switzerland
original language	German
Publishing year	1973
length	95 minutes
Age rating	FSK 18
Rod
Director	Erwin C. Dietrich
script	Erwin C. Dietrich
production	Erwin C. Dietrich
music	Walter Baumgartner
camera	Peter Baumgartner
cut	Marie-Luise Buschke
occupation
Carl Möhner : Dr. Felix Kuhn, medical officer Helmut Förnbacher : Captain Mannteufel Karin Heske : Eva Kuhn Elisabeth Felchner : Marga Kuhn Renate Kasche : Ulrike von Menzinger Alexander Allerson : Obert Stett Birgit Bergen : supply officer Hasso Preiß : Major Milan Beli : Aljoscha Anne Graf : Defense officer Stein Klaus Knuth : Gestapo officer Elke Boltenhagen : Claudia Michel Jacot : American lieutenant Elisabeth Fricker : Recruit Goldschmidt

An Army Gretchen is a Swiss war and sexploitation film made in Yugoslavia in 1972 by Erwin C. Dietrich (director, production and screenplay) with Carl Möhner in the lead role. The story is based on a novel of the same name by Karl-Heinz Helms-Liesenhoff , published in 1947 .

action

The story takes place in the Third Reich towards the end of World War II . The Wehrmacht is threatened with draining personnel, and therefore women are now to be recruited. But not in order to do their duty at the front. As so-called “lightning girls”, nurses, news and flak helpers are put into uniforms - for the sexual delight of German front-line officers, for military training, for the moral strengthening of Hitler's last contingent against the oncoming Red Army .

Medical officer Dr. Felix Kuhn scrutinizes the often blonde “ladies line-up”, which is selected purely for sexual attractiveness. His two pretty daughters Eva and Marga are also said to be at the service of the soldiers, but Kuhn tries several times to protect them and other girls from this dubious service for the fatherland with nebulous certificates. That's why Dr. One day Kuhn is visited by the Gestapo . But Kuhn is too worried, because the Blitzmädels obviously not only have fun trying out uniforms and weapons, but especially indulging in neat Nazi officers. This “Army of Gretchen” is also not averse to sexual experiences with one another.

Production notes

An Army Gretchen was filmed in Yugoslavia and premiered in Switzerland on January 1, 1973 . The German premiere took place on August 23, 1973.

criticism

Films 1971–76 called the highly speculative film “politically irresponsible and sometimes repulsively disgusting”.

Web links

• An army Gretchen in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual proof

1. ^ German films 1971–76. Critical notes from six years of cinema and television. Cologne 1977, p. 20