The nights are hot in Frankfurt
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The nights are hot in Frankfurt |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1966 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rolf Olsen |
| script | Rolf Olsen |
| production |
Karl Spiehs for Intercontinental-Film (Vienna) |
| music | Erwin Halletz |
| camera | Karl Löb |
| occupation | |
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The nights are hot in Frankfurt is an Austrian action and crime film from 1966 by Rolf Olsen with Erik Schumann , Walter Kohut and Vera Chekhova in the leading roles.
action
The young Viennese Peter Seitz comes to Frankfurt to visit his fiancée Vera Paterny, whom he loves very much. He doesn't really know much about her, but he believes that Vera, as a decent girl in the Main metropolis, has a decent job. But Vera, like so many women of her generation, drove into the pit of sin there in order to find her happiness. Between the back rooms and the jet set ambience, Vera was hoping to make big bucks. Now the prostitute is dead, she was found stabbed in her apartment. There is a prostitute murderer in Frankfurt. Peter can't believe it; he still defends the honor of his dead girlfriend, even when the sleazy compatriot Harry Schimek, a pimp, promises him on the head that his Vera went to bed with men for money. The press chants: “A new case of Nitribitt !” Two innocent Spanish guest workers are suspected.
The film traces a depraved society in a "sinful" city: drug smugglers and pimps, young and attractive as well as aging and cheap whores, thugs and petty thugs, bullies and well-to-do men looking for a bit of luck come together in this scene . There is fear among prostitutes in the face of the series of prostitutes. Pimp Alphons Tewes also puts pressure on, he still wants to continue to earn money with his prostitutes; he says to his wards who are on strike: "Hairdressers have already been killed without the others going on strike". Soon there is also a threat of a gang war among the pimps. The police, under the direction of Inspector Reinisch, are feverishly investigating and questioning Vera's colleagues, but are not getting anywhere. The warring underworld camps finally come together to take the search for the perpetrator into their own hands. A certain Dieter Lorenz turns out to be the drive killer, a poor, little sausage who does not sting women in the normal way and his frustration, fueled by rejection, with the desperate words “I want to make love too! But they didn't want to do it with me! ”Shouts out.
Production notes
The murder of Helga Matura served as a template for the film . In Frankfurt the nights are hot was shot against the resistance of the milieu in the spring of 1966 . The film crew was pelted with bottles and received death threats. The German premiere took place on August 16, 1966, the film structures were designed by Fritz Jüptner-Jonstorff .
Konrad Georg plays the investigating Frankfurt police superintendent Reinisch , with a strong visual and character based on his popular TV series hero Kommissar Freytag .
For another exploitation film, Hot Plaster Cologne , Frankfurt producer Karl Spiehs designed a similarly knitted underworld and prostitution story, relocated it to the Rhine and also hired some protagonists in Frankfurt, some of whom played similar characters: Richard Münch, Walter Kohut, Angelika Ott and Claus Ringer. Spiehs explained retrospectively that he was mad at the time that cities like Frankfurt and Cologne could become interesting.
Reviews
“Frankfurt turned out to be an abundant supplier of scripts: Nitribitt and Matura died a dramatic death. The vera of this film has a good box office and after a correspondingly successful time wants to withdraw into bourgeois life with a chaste and unsuspecting young man. But of course, for reasons of film drama, this no longer happens. She is stabbed. And so the question arises: who is the murderer? Director Rolf Olsen takes an almost documentary approach to rolling up the case, which is based on his own script version. He explains the work of the police and Vera's professional colleagues precisely and credibly. Flashbacks show the dolce vita of the murdered in Vienna. (...) The strong expressions from the milieu are real, but the leading actress Vera Chekhova does not always have an easy time convincing the audience that this jargon was born in her cradle. As always, Richard Münch and Fritz Tillmann are good and reliable actors. Konrad Georg as commissioner and the incarnation of the feminine, Barbara Valentin, deserve a mention from the long cast list. "
"Problems of prostitution such as prostitution and pimp fights are allegedly brought up with socially critical intentions. An evil and hypocritical colportage. "
“Under a socially critical pretext, the entire underworld operation of a large city is extensively and speculatively demonstrated. Cannot be recommended. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Roman Schliesser: The super nose. Karl Spiehs and his films , Verlag Carl Ueberreuter, Vienna 2006, p. 25
- ↑ Roman Schliesser: The super nose. Karl Spiehs and his films , Verlag Carl Ueberreuter, Vienna 2006, p. 83
- ↑ The nights are hot in Frankfurt. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 302/1966