Mistress of the world
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Mistress of the world |
| Country of production |
Germany France Italy |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1960 |
| length | 98 (part 1), 89 (part 2) minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Wilhelm Dieterle |
| script |
Jo Eisinger Harald G. Petersson |
| production |
Artur Brauner for CCC Filmproduktion GmbH , Berlin-West Franco-London Film, Paris Continental Produzione, Rome |
| music | Roman Vlad |
| camera | Richard fear |
| cut | Ira Oberberg |
| occupation | |
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Herrin der Welt is a two-part German-French-Italian adventure film by Wilhelm Dieterle from 1959/1960. Martha Hyer and Carlos Thompson play the leading roles .
action
The Swedish physicist Professor Johanson, head of the nuclear physics institute, has succeeded with his secret research in obtaining bundled energy from nuclear fusion. This formula could revolutionize the world, with it enormous amounts of energy could be released. Sweden's secret service sends its top agent Peter Lundström to shadow the scientist and possibly protect him from kidnappers. Lundström follows Johanson's heels and meets his attractive, blond daughter Karin, who works as her father's assistant. After the effectiveness of Johanson's method can be proven for the first time in an explosion and Johanson has to be taken to hospital injured as a result of the widespread destruction, a group of dark, international profiteers and conspirators begins to develop keen interest in this invention. Professor Johanson is in grave danger.
Karin is now continuing her father's research and is also caught in the crosshairs of the mysterious opponents. Johanson himself withdraws to a Cambodian monastery in order to get out of the field of fire of the gangsters and to recover. The international criminals manage to steal Johanson's energy formula. Thereupon Karin attaches herself to the heels of the thieves, supported by Lundström. But it also has its own goals. The hunt takes them around the globe. It soon turns out that there is a certain Madame Latour behind the sinister machinations. Eventually, old Johanson falls into her hands. In Southeast Asia there is a showdown between the kidnappers and Lundström and Karin.
production
The film is loosely based on Joe May's 1919 monumental film Die Herrin der Welt .
The film was made between September 1959 and February 1960. The film locations were in the vicinity of Bangkok , Hong Kong , Macau , Cambodia , Nepal , Sweden , Nice and Naples . The CCC Studios Berlin-Spandau served as the studio.
The extensive film structures were designed by Willi Schatz and Helmut Nentwig . The costumes come from Claudia Herberg. Harald G. Petersson wrote the screenplay, which had to be rewritten (and modernized) by his American colleague Jo Eisinger . Cinematographer Richard Angst also directed some scenes without naming them. He finished the film after a falling out between Dieterle and Brauner.
According to Der Spiegel, the total cost of Herrin der Welt amounted to almost five million DM. This made it one of the most expensive German feature films of the (early) post-war period. Artur Brauner and Herrin der Welt produced another mammoth project that was as exotic as it was elaborate within a year and a half after the two-part film The Tiger of Eschnapur and The Indian Tomb, which cost around four million marks .
The first performance of the first part was on April 14, 1960, the second, also called Mistress of the World - Angkor Vat , started on April 26, 1960. The premiere location was Hamburg , the first part in the Kino City, the second part in the mass start. The French premiere took place on October 12, 1960 in six Paris cinemas.
criticism
The film's large personal lexicon called the film "an exotic two-part adventure".
Der Spiegel spoke of a “spectacle” with an “abstruse story”.
The lexicon of the international film wrote about the first part: "Excitingly colorfully staged" and judged the second: "Even the costly effort does not compensate for the increasingly silly plot."
The online presence of Cinema came to the following conclusion: “Despite exotic locations like Cambodia, very home-made”.
Web links
- Mistress of the World, Part 1 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Mistress of the world, the second part in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Mistress of the world at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm (William) Dieterle - actor, director . In: CineGraph - Lexikon zum Deutschsprachigen Film , Lg. 22, F 43
- ^ Monumental films: Ufa-Kintopp, 1st part . In: Der Spiegel 19/1960, May 4, 1960, pp. 60–63, here p. 63, accessed on April 27, 2018.
- ↑ 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 2: C - F. John Paddy Carstairs - Peter Fritz. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 390.
- ^ Monumental films: Ufa-Kintopp, 1st part . In: Der Spiegel 19/1960, May 4, 1960, pp. 60–63, here SS 60, 63, accessed on April 27, 2018.
- ↑ Klaus Brüne (Red.): Lexikon des Internationale Films , Volume 3. Schüren, Marburg, 1987, ISBN 978-3-499-16322-7 , p. 1587.
- ↑ Mistress of the World (2) . In: cinema.de , March 13, 2013, accessed April 27, 2018.