Hate without mercy
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Hate without mercy |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1962 |
| length | 91, 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ralph Lothar |
| script |
Franz Höllering Leo Lania |
| production | Rapid-Film, Munich ( Wolf C. Hartwig ) |
| music | Borut Lesjak |
| camera | Georg Krause |
| cut | Herbert Taschner |
| occupation | |
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Hatred Without Mercy is a German drama film filmed in 1961 with Horst Frank as conductor and Maria Perschy in a double role.
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The conductor Saran is a celebrated artist but has a major ego problem. Because he is handicapped and needs a stick, he has to feel confirmed again and again as a man and therefore requires his female orchestral soloist staff to be available to him beyond the purely professional and artistic. Only when each of the attractive ladies is sexually at his service does he find satisfaction, receive his ego balm, which has been massively affected by his physical ailments. His current love affair is blond and is called Claudia, which in turn provokes envy and irrepressible jealousy in their twin sisters Martina.
Martina takes a downright shock ... and becomes a fury. In a fit of madness, she murders her sister to take her place. When Saran, again looking for new confirmation, turns to a new young lady, this time with black hair, from the music business (again a pianist), the tragedy finally takes its course. Martina is said to be admitted to a mental hospital and under the medical supervision of Dr. Elmer, a handsome specialist. But before that can happen, the story ends in a bloodbath, and Martina also murders her lover Saran.
Production notes
Hate Without Mercy was filmed in Ljubljana in 1961 and passed through the FSK on December 4, 1961. The premiere took place on May 18, 1962 in the Europa-Palast in Düsseldorf.
The production line had Ludwig Spitaler . Ivan Pengow designed the film structures, Eberhard Jennewein provided the sound. Dorothee Parker was Hartwig's partner and wife as producer.
Reviews
“The title doesn't even give you a clue of what this film has to offer: Tchaikovsky concert, popular psychology, ditto psychiatry, artist demonia, and - last but not least - criminology. The demonic part falls on Horst Frank: Conductor on the stick (cripple complex), who feels that his pianists' possessions are constantly reaffirmed. He nibbles his way from twin sisters to an attractive substitute, leaves behind enervated creatures that are ready for asylum and then bites granite because another man (who happens to be a doctor) is involved. The amalgamation of the above-mentioned ingredients shows the story initially as a musical tragedy, and finally as a bloodbath. Only the successful final effect explains why everything had to appear so obviously constructed. As for the actors: good mastery of effective and difficult roles with Frank and Maria Perschy. "
In Films 1962/64 the following can be read: "Primitive garbage product."
In the lexicon of the international film it says: "A rather listlessly staged colportage story ... Even the actors seem abandoned by all good spirits."
Individual evidence
- ^ Films 1962/64. Critical notes from three years of cinema and television. Handbook VII of the Catholic film criticism. Düsseldorf 1965, p. 71
- ↑ Hate without mercy. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 31, 2015 .
Web links
- Hate without mercy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hate without mercy at filmportal.de