Kitty and the big world

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Movie
Original title Kitty and the big world
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1956
length 94 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Alfred Weidenmann
script Herbert Reinecker after the play Kitty and the world conference by Stefan Donat
production Wilhelm Sparhawk
music Hans-Martin Majewski
camera Helmuth Ashley
cut Carl Otto Bartning
occupation

Kitty and the Big World is a German feature film by Alfred Weidenmann from 1956 with Romy Schneider , Karlheinz Böhm and OE Hasse in the leading roles. Herbert Reinecker wrote the script . It is based on the play "Kitty and the World Conference" by Stefan Donat and a manuscript by Emil Burri and Johannes Mario Simmel .

In the Federal Republic of Germany, the film first hit cinemas on September 13, 1956. In 1966 it was broadcast on TV on ZDF before the film was soon forgotten. It wasn't until 2018 that it returned to the screens via Arte .

action

An international conference is being prepared in Geneva, which will be attended by numerous foreign ministers. The daily routine is hectic, as is the case in Jeannot's representative hairdressing salon, where the two girls Kitty and Jeannette work as manicures. Today they have their hands full because many conference participants want to be beautified in the salon. Even after work, Kitty's head is still buzzing with news about the event. Suddenly she is approached by a noble gentleman who asks her about the "Paradiso" bar. Kitty explains the way to him, but because the stranger seems too little familiar with Geneva, she leads him there straight away. The gentleman politely invites her, whereupon she gladly accepts his invitation to dinner. After they both dined there, Kitty would like to eat something, but not in the Paradiso, as this seems too expensive for her. She then leads the gentleman to an unspecified restaurant. There they are photographed by a reporter who has already observed them in the “Paradiso”. While paying, she learns who her dinner partner was: British Foreign Secretary Sir William Ashlin.

The next morning, a photo appeared in all the major newspapers showing the politician and Kitty at table in the second restaurant. Crawford, the secretary of the British delegation, reproaches his supervisor for leaving the house without escort the previous evening and for creating an unpleasant situation with the girl. Now there is a threat of a scandal that has to be covered up. Then Crawford had the idea to give his nephew Robert, who is also currently a diplomat in Geneva, a special assignment to bail him out.

First, Robert Ashlin ensures that Kitty is given a few days leave of absence from her employer to keep her away from the crowd of journalists. Together with Kitty, he leaves the hairdressing salon through the back exit and goes with his protégé to the mountains near Lake Geneva. The two get closer and closer. When they part ways in the evening, they arrange to go on a steamboat trip to Malraux the next morning.

The British Foreign Secretary has finished preparations for the main meeting. When he sat down to shave in Jeannot's salon, the hairdresser who served him noticed his nervousness. He recommends a longer walk in the fresh air. Such a man always worked miracles with his predecessor Briand. Suddenly, Sir Ashlin feels great desire to drive his car along the lake to Malraux. But after a few kilometers the road is closed. He asks a fisher boy to take him to Malraux in his boat. Once there, the boy asks two francs. Only then does the passenger realize that he has forgotten his wallet. But because the boy insists on fulfilling his demand, he simply won't let his passenger go ashore. Therefore the world conference is taking place without the British Foreign Secretary.

Sir Ashlin thinks his political career will soon be over. When he arrives back at the English villa, he is not only greeted warmly, but also warmly congratulated: thanks to his absence, the conference has turned out to be a complete success for the United Kingdom. The other foreign ministers would have agreed to make further concessions simply because of his absence.

Robert takes a load off his heart that after the end of the conference he doesn't have to fly back to London with his uncle, but should stay in Geneva for another two weeks to do a few diplomatic tasks. This leaves him enough time to bring his relationship with Kitty to a happy end.

Trivia

By Hans-Martin Majewski , the composer of film music, comes also put forward in the strip song "Be careful, little kitty, the world is so big," according to a text by Trude Hofmeister . The film structures were designed and implemented by Rolf Zehetbauer and Peter Röhrig .

Helmut Käutner filmed this material for the first time in 1939 with his directorial debut Kitty and the World Conference .

In the 2010s, the almost forgotten film was rediscovered when film lovers made a program reference in the old radio press to the only television broadcast in 1966 on ZDF. The former broadcast tape could be found on ZDF - only in black and white; apart from fragments, the color version of the film is considered lost. On Christmas Eve 2018, Arte broadcast the film again for the first time under the leadership of ARD .

criticism

"Cheerful, amiable conversation."

- Lexicon of international film

See also

Kitty and the World Conference , the first film adaptation of the play of the same name by Helmut Käutner with Hannelore Schroth in the title role

source

Program for the film: Illustrierte Film-Bühne , published by the publishing house of the same name in Munich, No. 3414

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kitty and the Big World: Film Info. In: The film and television series information portal. On Wishlist.de, accessed on January 11, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b Lorenz Maroldt: "Kitty and the Big World" at Arte: Romy Schneider film believed to be lost to be seen again on TV for the first time. In: Der Tagesspiegel, December 24, 2018. From Tagesspiegel.de, accessed on January 11, 2019.
  3. ↑ rororo-Taschenbuch No. 3174 (1988), p. 2027