Girls at Risk (1958)
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| Original title | Girls at risk |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1958 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
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| Director | Wolfgang luck |
| script | Hellmut Andics |
| production | Ernest Müller |
| music | Hans Hagen |
| camera | Walter Partsch |
| cut | Heinz Haber |
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Girls at Risk is a German moral drama from 1958 by Wolfgang Glück with Gerlinde Locker , Wolf Albach-Retty and Heinz Drache in the leading roles. The strip, which is largely made up of Austrian actors, follows the tradition of the so-called girl-dealing films, popular since the early silent film era.
action
The story takes place in the amusement mile business and the striptease milieu of Hamburg-St. Pauli. One day the young Viennese dancer Eva Mannhardt, who wanted to take part in a beauty contest in the Hanseatic city, is found dead there. Although all the signs make an accident appear likely, the investigating detective Maulbeck remains suspicious, because he has been dealing with the criminal activities of a gang of girl traffickers in Hamburg's red-light district for some time. Although we know the masterminds, we have not yet been able to prove their crimes. Help is coming in the form of the Viennese detective inspector Christa Ritter, who comes to Hamburg to help her colleagues there. Ritter absolutely wants to immerse himself in the demi-world in order to get to the perpetrators better from there and perhaps to secure one or the other evidence. With the help of the opaque photographer Heinz Sanders, whom she had met shortly before in a Miss election, the Viennese policewoman found a job as a barmaid in the semi-silk establishment "Garden of Eden".
There willing young girls are trained to be dancers and are lured with the promise of starting a great stage career abroad. They are then shipped as “fresh meat” for wealthy customers. As a rule, it has been learned that the naive young European women do not end up on the show stage at their destination, but in the brothel. The two young Viennese Erika and Sonja also came to Hamburg with the hope of a dance career and threaten to suffer the same fate. The bosses of the girl trafficking gang, the outwardly serious Dr. Thomas Jensen and his beefy henchman Mario Cortez are regular guests of the "Garden of Eden" and are once again looking for new young victims. The inexperienced Erika likes to be lulled by Jensen's old man charm. The cartel of evil threatens to be exposed when the dancer Draga lets the police know that she knows a lot about the background of the gang and is also ready to talk about it. Of course, the criminals also notice this, and suddenly Draga has disappeared without a trace. Now, with the help of the Viennese colleague, the Hamburg police have to act as quickly as possible to smash the girl trafficking ring.
Production notes
Endangered Girls was created in the autumn of 1957 in Vienna and Hamburg and was premiered on March 6, 1958 in the Hanoverian Regina cinema.
This film was followed in 1959 by two other thematically similar lucky productions of the same genre, Das Nachtlokal zum Silbermond and Mädchen für die Mambo-Bar (again with Gerlinde Locker in the female lead), which were made by the producer of the Berlin company Rex-Film Bloemer & Co ., Ernest Müller , were produced at a similarly cheap price and promised a large profit.
useful information
Immediately after this film, Heinz Drache shot the thematically not entirely dissimilar film Die Strasse , the story of a "fallen girl" in the urban jungle, for the same production company in 1958 . As in Girls at Risk , his film partners were Edith Elmay , Marina Petrova and Horst Beck .
Reviews
The film service didn’t leave the film good: "Detective trash from the semi-worldly and underworld - unrealistic, uncritical and enriched with a mendacious love story."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Girls at risk. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 24, 2019 .
Web links
- Girls at risk in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Girls at risk at filmportal.de