Josefine Mutzenbacher (film)
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| Original title | Josefine Mutzenbacher |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1970 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
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| Director | Kurt Nachmann |
| script | Kurt Nachmann |
| production | Lisa Film , Munich |
| music | Gerhard Heinz |
| camera | Heinz Hölscher |
| cut | Monica Wilde |
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Josefine Mutzenbacher is a German sex film by Kurt Nachmann from 1970, which is considered a classic of its kind. The novel Josefine Mutzenbacher, attributed to Felix Salten , was filmed in 1906. The German premiere was on August 21, 1970.
action
The mysterious millionaire Lady J. from the USA returns to Vienna at the turn of the century . Ministerialrat Marbach, author of a book entitled Customs and Morals , is to receive them.
Lady J. unexpectedly stays in a dilapidated hotel on the Prater and tells the astonished Ministerialrat the life story of the Prater whore, Josefine. In flashbacks you can see the childhood and youth of the girl who had early sexual experiences through the lodger Ekkehard and a (fake) pastor . After the death of the mother, who was exposed to the desires of the alcohol-addicted father, the father also offends against Josefine.
She meets a pimp through the lodger Rudolf and his friend Zenzi . Since her father loses his job, she has to offer herself to men to provide for the family. She soon rises to become the most famous and sought-after Prater whore. In doing so, she is confronted with the double moral standards of her clients, who externally condemn prostitution . In the brothel she finally catches a rich American.
The Ministerial Council is beginning to understand that Lady J. is telling her own story. She criticizes the social ostracism of prostitution and even refers to Sigmund Freud . All she asked of Marbach, who was visibly fascinated by her, was to rethink. Finally he agrees to publish the life story of the Mutzenbachers in a book.
Songs
Kurt Nachmann himself sings the song Josefine Mutzenbacher (to the melody of the overture to the operetta The beautiful Galathée ). Other songs are brushes, brushes! , And he puts it in as well as I know exactly why .
additional
Producer Karl Spiehs was only able to win over screenwriter Kurt Nachmann for the film by letting him direct the film. Nachmann then delivered the finished script in just three days.
Josefine Mutzenbacher was a huge box office success and made the underlying novel widely known. Its ban in turn boosted the film's popularity. In Munich it was shown in cinemas for 20 weeks and at production costs of almost one million marks (in today's purchasing power € 1.80 million), it grossed 5.5 million (in today's purchasing power € 9.91 million).
Christine Schuberth, who only appears after about 30 minutes, rose to become a star of the German sex film, although she, like she later in the RTL II series Peep! confessed, never understood why she, with her boyish body, was chosen for such roles. In fact, the Hetzendorfer fashion student was originally only intended for one scene as a child's double, with which she wanted to earn pocket money, but at Nachmann's insistence she got the whole role.
The film found two sequels: Josefine Mutzenbacher II - My 365 Lovers (1971) and Ferdinand Mutzenbacher (1972). Independently of this, the porn film Josefine Mutzenbacher was made in 1976 - How she really was and its three successors.
Reviews
The film reviews saw something special in this sex film. Writes Reclams lexicon of German Films 1995:
“From the vast number of cheap and amateur sex films that have made up a considerable part of German-language cinema production since the mid-sixties, Kurt Nachmann's film stands out as a classic. In the cleverly arranged old Viennese milieu, courageous actors act and animate without being overly tasteless. They are supported by a multitude of optical gags and the imaginative outwitting of the censorship regulations of the time. "
The Heyne Filmlexikon (1996) praised the filming of the “classic pornography, which endeavors to be true to the original”. In 2005, Stefan Rechmeier wrote in his Lexicon of German Erotic Films that this film was “certainly one of the most honest Mutzenbacher films, which is not just about his frankly shown sex scenes need not hide in any way ”. Only the film magazines close to the churches had a different opinion. The Catholic lexicon of international films described it as a melodrama entwined with “social criticism and moral sermons, full of embarrassments and frivolities.” The Protestant film observer blows in the same horn: “Quite mindless, predominantly tiring, film adaptation of the well-known pornography, degraded to meat inspection with slapstick, Memoirs of the Viennese lady of the same name. "
swell
- ↑ Roman Closer: The Supernose. Karl Spiehs and his films , Vienna 2006, p. 40
- ↑ Josefine Mutzenbacher. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 24, 2017 .
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 354/1970
Web links
- Josefine Mutzenbacher in the Internet Movie Database (English)