Women are not angels
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Women are not angels |
| Country of production | German Empire |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1943 |
| length | 83 minutes |
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| Director | Willi Forst |
| script | Géza from Cziffra |
| production | Willi Forst |
| music | Theo Mackeben |
| camera | Jan Stallich |
| cut | Hans Wolff |
| occupation | |
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Women are not angels is a German comedy film by Willi Forst from 1943. Marte Harell and Axel von Ambesser can be seen in the leading roles . Margot Hielscher , Curd Jürgens , Richard Romanowsky and Hedwig Bleibtreu play leading roles.
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Richard Anden is a well-known film director and has a pronounced punch with women, of which he is well aware. The man enjoys his reputation as a charmer and woman beggar, but he strictly separates work from private escapades. Even during a boat trip on the luxury steamer "Ariadne", which he undertakes with his friend, the screenwriter Alfred Bolt, the lovely femininity buzzes around him, not least because the women hope it will protect them for a film career. The young Lola, for example, plays the loyal and well-behaved housewife, but is actually an ambitious singer and shows her skills with the intonation of the theme song "Women are not angels". Anden, however, wants to be coveted for its own sake and not just because of its powerful position in the studio and in the celluloid industry.
One evening Anden was relaxing in a deck chair on the deck when he witnessed a conversation. It takes place between the young Helga Norden and a detective named Bandini. The police officer accuses the lady of killing her husband. Helga admits the act, but claims to have acted in self-defense. Due to her pleading not to be arrested in front of the guests on board, the young detective grants the alleged manslaughter a grace period before berthing in the next port, i.e. in seven days. Richard, who has no idea that he has been stuck in a production of that lady with her brother in the role of the policeman, immediately begins to develop an interest in that mysterious Miss Norden. After a while, his interest turns into love, and Anden thinks about trying to buy Helga out of Bandini's house with a check. Said and done. But Bandini lets the Andes run up and says dryly that if he should shoot a bribery scene in the film soon, he should rather offer cash.
The publisher Dr. Orla. She, too, who is really Miss Nord's aunt, plays a role in this comedy directed by Helga. After learning of his interest in Helga, the elderly lady claims to Anden that Helga is an impostor. She and Bandini are siblings and are only on the passenger ship to exempt wealthy passengers. He, Andes, is just another victim, because Helga and Bandini always pull off the same scam: the arrest scene observed. Then the man would play the old-school gentleman and want to buy the beleaguered lady free. Of course, Helga Norden didn't kill anyone, but this claim would underline the dramatic aspect of this smear comedy. When asked about this, Helga confesses to Richard that she actually did not kill anyone. Richard doesn't care about any of this, he asks Helga to become his wife.
She says “yes” and they both go to the altar in the next port. But suddenly it says “Cut”, the scene is over. Helga's surprise is big, because she's not the only one who knows how to “big staging”. Anden had now learned from his buddy Bolt who Helga Norden was really about and now let her play according to his own script. The young lady, who had once submitted a script to Anden without receiving a positive answer, only went to all the trouble to show the director how good her manuscript was and that it could make splendid film material. Her aunt Orla gave her to underline Helga's value as a credible, talented author. The following day Richard Helga presented a contract for signature. The author, who feels she was being led by Andes, is about to tear the document up in front of his eyes when Richard points out that this is by no means a degree to acquire her script, but a marriage contract. And so the two lovebirds sink into each other's arms after all sorts of detours.
Production notes, background
The filming of Women Are Not Angels began, depending on the sources, on September 13 or 21, 1942 and ended in December of the same year. The production line was Hans Somborn , Hannes Staudinger was easier cameraman at January stable ego director of photography. The film structures were created by Julius von Borsody and Fritz Jüptner-Jonstorff , while Alfred Norkus and Otto Untersalmberger provided the sound . JA Vesely was the production manager, W. Fred Adlmüller designed the costumes.
In the handbook for "Austrian Film Days 1986" in the "Retrospective" section of Dr. Walter Fitz gave Willi Forst's view of his work as a director: “Just as everything is technically prepared in meticulous work, so it is also in the artistic field. The actor receives a script from me that is ready from the first to the last word, with the finest nuances of the role ... There is no nervous 'working into the air' and everything goes smoothly. "(P. 215/16) The author Karlheinz Wendtland said that you notice that in every film by Willi Forst, "especially this one!"
Willi Forst recognized Curd Jürgens' talent and his charisma on the screen. In this film, Jürgens was seen for the first time in a continuous role in a film.
Walter Leschtitzky took care of the special musical arrangements. Margot Hielscher sang the eponymous hit song , and the songs I say yes and you are lucky with Frau'n Bel Ami .
The production cost was RM 1,202,000.
publication
The world premiere took place on March 23, 1943 in Vienna's Apollo film theater. The Berlin premiere was on July 20, 1943 in the Marmorhaus and Babylon cinemas . The film was released in Amsterdam, the Netherlands in June 1943, in Sweden in August 1943, in Denmark in October 1943 and in Finland in December 1943. It was released in France in January 1944, in the United States in 1946 and in Portugal in February 1948. In the Federal Republic of Germany women are no angels was first shown on October 26, 1959 on television.
The film was also released in Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland and Spain.
Reviews
“In this film, Forst went different ways than before. Nothing of revue, of a thousand beautiful legs. He made a film from the film. "
"Comedy staged with a light hand, in which the film industry pokes fun at itself in an imaginative and self-deprecating way."
The critic and author Karlheinz Wendtland asked what the ladies and gentlemen “who are talking about the Nazi film today” would say “that a German folk song is jazzed up in this film?” Wendtland also found the film “a remarkable one German version of the American screwball comedy! "
In Cinema's editorial criticism there was talk of a “satirical comedy” and further: “Willi Forst (' Bel Ami ', ' The Sinner ') , one of the best musical directors of the 1930s, takes on the quirks of the film industry with charm, wit and speed Korn. "Conclusion:" Punch-rich game, lively staged. "
Kino.de spoke of a "light comedy based on a script by the later successful director Geza von Cziffra ( Charley's aunt with Peter Alexander ) for his own production company". It also said: “Marte Harell and Axel von Ambesser play the balls in a very good mood on board the luxury liner and also target the film industry with a few self-deprecating allusions. Theo Mackeben's relaxed music numbers fit perfectly into the turbulent plot. "
On the page of Curd Jürgens' legacy , on which the film historian Eberhard Spiess recorded his memories, it says: “The plot features intelligent and funny dialogues (this is helped by well-versed actors such as Marte Harell, Hedwig Bleibtreu, Axel von Ambesser or Richard Romanowsky ). "[...]" The audience rewarded the lively, humor and atmosphere presented topic with a duration of 28 days "[based on the marble house in Berlin].
See also
Web links
- Women are not angels in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Women are not angels at filmportal.de
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Women are not angels Fig. Title page Film-Bühne Volume II No. 15 (stylized picture by Marte Harell) +
Fig. Title page Today's program
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Karlheinz Wendtland: Beloved Kintopp. All German feature films from 1929–1945 with numerous artist biographies born in 1943, 1944 and 1945 . Publisher Medium Film Karlheinz Wendtland, Berlin. ISBN 3-926945-05-2 , film 19/1943, pp. 19, 20.
- ↑ a b Eberhard Spiess : Women are not angels (1943) see page curdjuergens.deutsches-filminstitut.de (including film excerpt with Jürgens and Axel von Ambesser). Retrieved July 19, 2019.
- ^ Ulrich J. Klaus: German sound films, 12th year 1942/43. S. 140. (016.43), Berlin 2001
- ↑ Les femmes ne sont pas des Anges Fig. French movie poster
- ↑ Women are not angels. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 19, 2019 .
- ↑ Women are not angels see page cinema.de (including Fig. Filmkurier and 10 film images). Retrieved July 19, 2019.
- ↑ Women are not angels see page Kino.de. Retrieved July 19, 2019.
