Galgentoni

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Movie
Original title Galgentoni
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1972
length 98 minutes
Rod
Director Michael Kehlmann
script Ludvík Aškenazy
production Peter Tügel (Production Manager), Horst Dallmayr (Production)
music Eugene Illinois
camera Erwin Carpenter
cut Engelbert Kraus
occupation

Galgentoni is a German television film from 1972 based on a story by Egon Erwin Kisch .

action

Austria in the KuK time: The murderer Prokupek, who successively killed his three wives, is to be executed. The evening before, he can express one last wish and would like to spend his last night with a beautiful woman. The prison director asks Commissioner Flixner of the moral police to look for a prostitute who would take on the job - but none is willing. The operator of the last "establishment" on Flixner's search, the Salon Diamant , initially refuses, but is put under pressure by Flixner. This then wants to force her old domestic worker Aloysia to go to Prokupek's cell. She fears that her house will lose its reputation if it becomes known that one of her prostitutes has served a murderer and inmate. After all, only respected and educated gentlemen frequent there. Aloysia is beside herself, begs the commissioner and the madame for mercy and would even rather kill herself than do this job.

One of the ladies working in the Diamant salon is Antonia, called Toni. She dictates letters to Aloysia for her mother, in which she leads the mother into a decent life. Toni is adored by Lieutenant Kuno von Molnar, who claims to love “her soul too” and to want to marry her. On the evening before Prokupek's execution, the first lieutenant is once again with Toni and leaves his revolver in the drawing room. Aloysia finds him, wants to kill herself with it, but shoots past and faints. She is found by the ladies and initially thought to be dead - she only wakes up when the inspector appears. He still insists that Aloysia be brought to Prokupek in the evening, but Toni volunteers out of pity for her.

The detective picks up Toni in the evening in the cab and takes her to the prison, where she and Prokupek spend a few hours in his cell. Prokupek is crude and without manners, but is usually amiable towards Toni. She does not want to keep the money that is then paid out for it, but gives it to the driver who takes her back to the brothel. There she is now viewed with contempt by everyone and has to listen to the malicious comments of her colleagues. Even Aloysia, to whom she has done a service, despises them. For her, it is even more humiliating that Aloysia shows the guests and the other women Toni's letter to her mother. You make fun of her and write a postscript under it, in which Toni's real life as a whore is revealed. Toni cannot prevent the letter from being sent. The Madame dismissed her without notice, as she was damaging the reputation of the house, and had to leave without knowing where to go.

production

The film was produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk and broadcast for the first time on May 9, 1972. The screenplay by Ludvík Aškenazy is based on the report Die Himmelfahrt der Galgentoni by Egon Erwin Kisch . It is the third film version of this material after a Czech-German co-production from 1930 and a GDR film from 1965.

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