Engelchen or The Virgin of Bamberg
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Engelchen - or the Virgin of Bamberg |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1968 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Marran Gosov |
| script | Marran Gosov , Franz Geiger |
| production | Rob Houwer |
| music | Jacques Loussier |
| camera | Werner Kurz |
| cut |
Renate Schlösser Gudrun Vöge |
| occupation | |
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Engelchen or the Virgin of Bamberg is a German comedy film from 1968. At the time, the flick was considered a sex comedy , but for today's terms it seems extremely harmless.
action
In the film, Gila von Weitershausen plays 19-year-old Katja from the Franconian province ( Bamberg ), who travels to Munich to lose her virginity . With the saying: “I'm finally due!” She throws herself into Schwabing's nightlife, accommodates herself there in a flat-sharing community of bumbling life artists (including Hans Clarin in the role of “Graf”). She pretends to have just returned from a job as a model in Rome and wants to study for the next semester. But their flat share residents, otherwise no children of sadness and supporters of free love , show themselves to be unable to cope with the situation of having to deal with a real virgin and get confused. Ultimately, Katja succeeds in achieving her goal by playing the men off against each other. The count fulfills her wishes and in the end she travels back home satisfied.
Others
Gila von Weitershausen played the title role . She got the opportunity to make a name for herself with this film because the original cast Sabine Sinjen was ill. She later appeared in a few other strips of the Schwabing film genre, which was newly created at this time, and with her carefree charisma was considered one of the symbolic figures of this time of free love and sexual revolution . Today the film looks very dusty, and even then there were films in this genre that were more successful in the cinema, e.g. B. To the point, sweetheart with Werner Enke and Uschi Glas , which was filmed at the same time.
Continue to work with Christof Wackernagel , who later worked as a terrorist for the RAF in real life and is now active again as an actor after a ten-year prison stay , and Hans Clarin as a flat share resident. Helmut Markwort , who later became editor-in-chief and publisher of Focus , made a brief appearance in the film as Katja's gripping chance acquaintance.
The film was even released in an English dubbed version under the name Angel Baby , which is rare for German films. The score is also remarkable. Characteristic of the subject matter of the film is about the song No more waiting ( No more waiting ) of the German group The Speeders . In the Federal Republic of Germany saw the film about two million viewers.
Reviews
“A disrespectful, cheeky, musically peppy film with a sense of joke and comedy, but which does not achieve the cheerful weightlessness of comparable“ Schwabing comedies ”of those years (“ To the point, sweetheart ”)."
successor
The follow-up film Engelchen macht weiter - hoppe, hoppe Reiter (1969) tried to build on the success of the film .
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.insidekino.com/Djahr/DAlltimeDeutsch50.htm
- ↑ Engelchen or The Virgin of Bamberg. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 4, 2017 .