Eva and the gynecologist

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Movie
Original title Eva and the gynecologist
Country of production Germany
United States
original language German
Publishing year 1951
length 80 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Erich Kobler
script Jobst Arndt
production Willy Zeyn -Film GmbH, Munich
Crusade Productions, New York
music Werner Scharfenberger
(as Willy Scharfenberger )
camera Josef Kirzeder
cut Frank Kalden
occupation

Eve and the gynecologist is a German-American feature film of 1951. Under the direction of Erich Kobler play Albrecht Schoenhals , Edith Prague and Til Kiwe the leading roles in this educational film .

action

Fred, Nicky and Eva study together. Both young men who share a student apartment love Eva. To avoid conflict, Nicky and Eva keep their relationship a secret from Fred. Nicky has to complete his last semester of study in Switzerland and so he organizes a party in the student apartment shortly before his departure. At the end of the farewell party, Eva and Nicky sleep together. In order not to be disturbed by Fred, Nicky made sure that Fred is seduced by a pretty girl in his room at the same time. Fred, who was quite drunk, only vaguely remembers that night. When he talks to Nicky about it, the friends get into an argument.

After Fred left for Switzerland, Eva realizes that the night with Nicky was not without consequences: She is expecting a child from Nicky. However, Eva rejects the decision to abort the child after taking a look at the abortion doctor's dingy office . She then goes to Dr. Florian, a reputable doctor who is at her side with helpful advice.

Fred, on the other hand, contracted a sexually transmitted disease that night from the unknown girl . As he is embarrassed to talk to a doctor about it, he seeks help from a charlatan , which costs him dearly, but without ending his suffering. Then Fred takes heart and seeks a specialist in skin and venereal diseases who effectively tackles the problem so that Fred is cured after a short time. Fred and Nicky meet for a discussion, which in turn leads to an argument. Both part irreconcilably.

When Nicky received a letter from Eva two months later that worried him very much, he telegraphed her that he would be coming by plane. The plane crashes over the Alps . Eva is so desperate that she tries to commit suicide , which fails but leads to a premature birth . After a year Eva and Fred are sitting together in Dr. Florian. The doctor confirms to the now happily married couple that Eva is pregnant again . Both follow the educational film about the birth process that Dr. Florian shows the doctor who brought them together in a misfortune a year ago.

Production, publication, background

It's a Willy Zeyn film on special Columbia distribution .

Serge Krivicky and Alfred Tauszky, who had been the founders of Columbus Film Verleih GmbH since 1950 through a straw man , owned the exclusive rights to the films of Columbia Pictures International Corporation. Serge Kriviky had Eva and the gynecologist cut together from the American cultural film Because of Eve (1948) by Crusade Productions. A poor framework story was added. The Munich-Tulbeckstrasse film studio served as the studio, while the outdoor shots were taken in Upper Bavaria. For the buildings was Theo Zwierski , for the production line Hans Lehmann responsible. The film could thus be produced for approx. DM 40,000.

Eva and the gynecologist premiered on March 30, 1951 in the Frankfurt Filmpalast. The film premiered in Austria on July 13, 1951. In 1959 it started under the title Din kropps begär in Sweden and 1960 in Denmark . In Finland it started on December 30, 1960 under the title Älkää tuomitko . The state of Berlin declared the film free of cultural tax.

As a sales-boosting measure, Krivicky had thought of having the audience in the cinema sit separately according to sex. The idea behind it, which was supposed to boost sales and which also worked, was that the audience expected special erotic scenes. In fact, the FSK decided that the film in West German cinemas should only be shown separately by gender. In doing so, it followed a tradition from the Weimar era of the Reichslichtspielgesetz.

In 1951, Styria-Film turned to the Constitutional Court because Eva and the gynecologist were on the list of bans in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg . The Constitutional Court approved the distribution company and declared the measure of a preliminary assessment by the state government with the measure of declaring a film not to be shown in Vorarlberg to be unconstitutional.

After the youth protection amendment of 1957, the special committee of the FSK upgraded the film from 16 to 18 years. At the same time, the film ran in Saarland , where it was previously banned. Since the requirement of gender segregation had become uncommon in the course of the 1950s, the FSK leadership agreed to lift this requirement and submitted the film to the working committee in October 1959. The examiners found, however, that the film under these conditions violated the moral sense and banned it without further ado. In contrast to “10 years ago in the disorder of the post-war situation”, “public information on sexually transmitted diseases” is no longer necessary because the problem no longer exists. The reason given for the prohibition was, in addition to the "hideous depictions" of venereal diseases, the purely pleasure-oriented sexual morality of the couple depicted.

Eva actress Edith Klinger , née Margulies (1922–2013) later became known as an Austrian animal rights activist and presenter. In her early years as a film and theater actress, she was known under the name Edith Prager .

criticism

“Wrapped up in a somewhat lengthy framework about a young couple seeking advice, director Erich Kobler presents several shorter documentaries on the subject of sex education. These are thoroughly scientifically sound and far from anything speculative, which the film title implies. The title role was taken by Edith Prager, who made a name for herself as a committed animal welfare activist after her rather short acting career. "

- kino.de

“Sex education, packaged in a feature film, into which short documentaries (e.g. about the course of a birth and about sexually transmitted diseases) are built. The film is medically and scientifically founded, but remains formally unbalanced. "

- Lexicon of international film

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfred Bauer : German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , p. 182 f.
  2. ↑ Eva and the gynecologist - That makes sales In: Der Spiegel No. 32/1951, August 8, 1951.
  3. ↑ Jürgen Kniep: “No youth release!” Film censorship in West Germany 1949 - 1990 , Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2010, p. 151.
  4. ^ Edith Blaschitz: Dissertation Popular Film and the "Fight Against Filth and Trash". Point 2.2.3.2.3 'Eva and the gynecologist' (1951), p. 129/377 adS othes.univie.ac.at
  5. ↑ Jürgen Kniep: “No youth release!” Film censorship in West Germany 1949 - 1990 , Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2010, p. 161.
  6. ↑ Eva and the gynecologist at kino.de. Retrieved April 14, 2012.
  7. ↑ Eva and the gynecologist. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used