Women's ward
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Women's ward |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1977 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rolf Thiele |
| script |
Werner P. Zibaso Ted Rose based on the novel of the same name by Marie Louise Fischer |
| production | Hans Pflüger for Cinema 77 (Berlin) |
| music | Bernd Kampka |
| camera | Charly Steinberger |
| cut | Ingrid Bichler |
| occupation | |
and Veronika Faber , Gerd Rigauer , Fred York | |
Frauenstation is a German feature film by Rolf Thiele from 1975 with Horst Buchholz , Stephen Boyd and Karin Dor in the leading roles.
action
Everyday stories from the gynecological department of a clinic are told in episodes, connected with the private and marital problems of the two male protagonists, a senior doctor and his superior, the chief doctor.
One of the patients who both doctors face important decisions is a young woman who has cancer and who is faced with the choice of either seeking treatment and thus endangering the life of her child or putting the child's best interests first. In the case of Angelika Schneider, who came with her mother, not only the question "child or not child" is in the room. Her own life is in dire, acute danger because the 15-year-old girl is pregnant and desperately tried to abort the fetus with a needle . She has been bleeding profusely from her abdomen since then.
In turn, head physician Prof. Overhoff and his senior physician Dr. Schumann around. Overhoff has had a traumatic experience: his wife died of a pulmonary embolism while giving birth to their second child . He is complicit. As a single father, Overhoff now has to take care of the pubescent daughter Eva and an infant. Schumann, on the other hand, is married to a very demanding and beautiful, young and somewhat exaggerated woman who is around 20 years younger than him and prefers to appear and act in an exalted manner. Claudia Schumann even brings unrest to hospital operations and thereby strains Schumann's relationship with his boss. Because she accuses Prof. Overhoff of having been responsible for the death of his wife, as he had impregnated her at an advanced age.
This tragic event leads to Claudia Schumann not wanting to have a child out of fear that it might end up like Mrs. Overhoff, which in turn leads to tensions with her husband. Her neuroses even take her to the point of hiding and hoarding medicines, including birth control pills , in her doll collection . When Eva Overhoff finds out, she immediately puts her knowledge to her father, who in turn informs his senior doctor. Schumann's attempt to speak to his wife in a sensible way fails. When Claudia assumes that her husband, who is having fun with the attractive sister from the nursery, has messed up her cycle and that she would have become pregnant as a result, she tries to commit suicide using sleeping pills.
production
The women's ward was filmed in just four weeks between November 20 and December 18, 1975 in Upper Bavaria and in the Bavaria Ateliers in Munich- Geiselgasteig . The premiere, simultaneously in Berlin and Vienna, was delayed until April 8, 1977.
The line producer was Walter Tjaden , whose last film this was. The film structures were designed by Peter Rothe .
The blonde, Norwegian nude model Lillian Müller , who was 24 at the time of shooting, made her film debut here with Buchholz's wife Claudia. The following year she brought director Thiele in front of the camera again and gave her the largely textile-free title role in Rosemary's Daughter , his staging farewell staging that has been torn by both critics and women . In the same year, Müller moved to the USA, joined the Hugh Hefner entourage and was also Playmate of the Year in 1976.
Marina Langner, who plays the cliché and wishful thinking of a slim, beautiful nurse and like her colleague Müller, was a film debutante, was working as a model at the time. She was named Miss Germany in 1975 and finished second in the Miss World elections immediately before filming began .
annotation
Women's ward was a typical depreciation film of those years (1975 to 1978) promoted by state legislation . This type of film, mostly produced by the companies Cinema 77 and Geria, which specialize in this type of financing, were financed through investments by investors with whom they sought to save taxes. The majority of these films - including The Secret Bearer , Mimosas Want To Bloom , Lady Dracula and The Chinese Miracle - were accordingly on the one hand high-profile and expensive (although rarely high-quality) produced, but on the other hand regularly turned out to be a box office flop. Due to the sometimes very poor quality of these films despite well-known actors (from Heinz Rühmann to Horst Buchholz and Stephen Boyd to Theo Lingen and Senta Berger ) and experienced directors (such as Wolfgang Liebeneiner and Rolf Thiele), there were regularly great difficulties in finding one for these productions Find rental. While The Secret Carrier and Also Mimosas Want to Bloom came to the cinemas relatively quickly after the end of filming, the premiere dates of other depreciation productions were sometimes considerably delayed: The Chinese Wonder and Women's Station (both filmed in autumn 1975) were only premiered in 1977, and Lady Dracula (also made in autumn 1975) was not even released until 1978. Women's ward producer Hans Pflüger was particularly active in the production of depreciation films.
Reviews
"A film that advocates the unborn child's right to life, but which slips into the air through cheap effects and the superficial treatment of its problems."
Regarding Thiele's late works such as Frauenstation and Rosemary's Daughter , The Great Personal Lexicon of Film says: “Since the end of the 1960s, in the age of general libertinage and 'sexual revolution', Thiele temporarily slipped to the level of a sex film maker. Approaches to parodistic or supposedly socially critical tendencies only had a fig leaf function. "
Web links
- Women's ward in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Women's station at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Spiegel article from January 1976 New doctor image with CSU help
- ↑ Spiegel article from 1978 Nothing works anymore
- ↑ Women's ward. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 7: R - T. Robert Ryan - Lily Tomlin. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 651.