I was a slave to him

Movie
Original title	I was a slave to him
Country of production	Federal Republic of Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1958
length	101 minutes
Age rating	FSK 18
Rod
Director	Wolfgang Becker
script	Kurt Heuser
production	Klaus Stapenhorst
music	Klaus Ogermann
camera	Kurt Hasse
cut	Wolfgang Fluff
occupation
Barbara Rütting : Anette Klinger Carlos Thompson : Nikolei Stein Wolfgang Preiss : Dr. Leipold Siegfried Lowitz : Mr. Hinze Kai Fischer : "Kittens" Corny Collins : Renate Lina Carstens : Ms. Mertens Michl Lang : Mr. Mertens Maria Stadler : Lene Wolfgang Völz : Assistant Lukas Ammann : Dessouki Wolfgang Büttner : Public Prosecutor Wilhelm Zeno Diemer :? Osman Ragheb :?

I was a slave to him is a crime drama by the tension specialist Wolfgang Becker , which is based on facts. The screenplay is based on the factual report of the same name by Curt Caesar Winter, which appeared in the Revue .

action

Anette Klinger, a widowed and lonely factory owner, meets the gas station attendant Nikolei Stein one day. She falls in love with him, Nikolei knows how to snuggle up to her. In truth, however, the man is an unscrupulous fraud who is after Anette's money. At night he arranged an accident on the motorway. Anette believes she killed a cyclist, but only because Nikolei gets out of the car and then claims that the man is dead. In reality, he hired him. He persuades Anette to run away, wins her affection and gets money out of her again and again. Later he pays a certain Hinze who appears as a detective. Nikolei puts Anette under more and more psychological pressure and the desperate woman does everything in her love that he demands of her. Eventually they set off on a trip to the Orient, where Anette is pushed to the brink of suicide. At the last second she can be saved as Dr. Leipold, a friend who is in love with her, finds her trail with the help of the dancer "Kitten", who is also used by Stein. After all, Nikolei cannot escape the poor of the law.

Reviews

"An unbelievable backstage drama in terms of both the psychological motivation and the representation of the milieu."

- Film lexicon two thousand and one .de

Others

The film structures were created by Wolf Englert and Ernst Richter , and the film was shot in the Carlton-Film-Atelier in Munich and in the knitwear factory Wolfgang März, Munich. I was a slave to him was a co-production of Carlton-Film with Eichberg-Film in the distribution of Omnia Deutsche Film Export GmbH. The distributor was Deutsche Cosmopol Film GmbH. Anette Klinger's villa is the famous crime villa in Munich's Gereutstrasse, where countless TV crime novels such as Derrick , Der Alte , Der Kommissar , Graf Yoster praised himself , The Strange Methods of Franz Josef Wanninger or Tatort were filmed.

Web links

• I was in bondage to him in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ I was a slave to him. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .