Women are better diplomats

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Movie
Original title Women are better diplomats
Women are better diplomats Logo 001.svg
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1941
length 89 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Georg Jacoby
script Karl Georg Külb ,
Gustav Kampendonk
production Max Pfeiffer for UFA
music Franz Grothe
camera Konstantin Irmen-Tschet ,
Alexander von Lagorio
cut Erich Kobler , Margarete Noell
occupation

Women Are Better Diplomats is one of the UFA produced musical film of the German author and director Georg Jacoby from the year 1941 , the first German color film in cinema in the story came in. The color was based on the Agfacolor process.

action

The beautiful dancer Marie-Luise helps her uncle, a casino director, when his casino in Homburg is to be closed in front of the height in 1848 by decision of the Frankfurt National Assembly. However, it is initially taken prisoner by Hanoverian troops who were dispatched to carry out the order to close. With female cunning, she escapes her guard, the Rittmeister von Karstein. She turns out to be a truly better diplomat, mediating an agreement between the Homburgers and the advancing troops. The casino is finally converted into a porcelain factory, Marie-Luise and her Rittmeister become a couple.

Songs

  • A waltz for you and me
  • Oh, I love all men
  • Girl don't cry
  • First a ching, then a boom
  • Music that never dies away
  • When a young man comes

(Lyrics by Willy Dehmel )

background

The production time, including the shooting, dragged on for over a year. The first shooting began on July 24, 1939 and lasted about five months; after two months of re-shooting, they ended in August 1940.

Erich Kettelhut was responsible for the buildings .

The majority of the recordings were made in the studios and outdoor areas of the UFA film studios in Neubabelsberg , today's Studio Babelsberg . The dance scenes by Marika Rökk and the large dance ensemble for the successful song A waltz for you and me took place in front of the terrace of Babelsberg Palace in the former imperial palace park of the same name . Furthermore, a few scenes were created in Bad Homburg .

The role of First Lieutenant Keller took over Erich Fiedler in place of Karel Štěpánek, who fled to England .

Problems with the new color film material delayed the completion of the film considerably. Many scenes in the film had to be re-shot from July to September 1940 due to poor quality of the new material. In the Agfa factory in Wolfen , however, the film material was continuously improved. Making the film copies also made difficulties. The film was not able to celebrate its premiere until October 31, 1941. The two cameramen Konstantin Tschet and Alexander von Lagorio were also present at the premiere in the Berlin Capitol am Zoo and were celebrated with great applause.

The production costs were 2.8 million Reichsmarks , but by November 1944 7.9 million Reichsmarks had been earned, almost three times the production costs.

Reviews

( "With great effort Georg Jacoby his wife Marika Rokk was in an upbeat romantic comedy from the Biedermeier present." Rheinische Post ) On the occasion of the premiere of the film in the program of the ARD on February 9, 1970 verdict of the Evangelical movie watchers , "Old UFA A film from 1941 that Georg Jacoby shot with his wife Marika Rökk. [...] The not particularly demanding story wins through the inserted dance and song numbers, in which Marika Rökk knows how to shine. Nice entertainment with small reservations from 16. "

Awards

The film was given the rating of popular and valuable by the National Socialist Film Inspectorate .

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Klaus Kreimeier: The Ufa story. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich / Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-446-15214-8 .
  2. a b filmportal.de: Women are better diplomats. filmportal.de , accessed on April 10, 2017 .
  3. filmmuseum-potsdam.de: Women are better diplomats. Filmmuseum Potsdam , accessed on April 10, 2017 .
  4. www.youtube.com: Women are better diplomats - 5th YouTube , accessed on April 10, 2017 .
  5. ^ Filmwelt - Das Film- und Foto-Magazin, No. 45/46 of November 12, 1941, p. 928
  6. Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 92/1970