Decoy of the night
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Decoy of the night |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1959 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Wilm ten Haaf |
| script |
Walter F. Fichelscher Peter Berg |
| production |
Leopold Branoner Artur Brauner |
| music | Peter Thomas |
| camera | Karl Schröder |
| cut | Heinz Haber |
| occupation | |
as well as Helga Warnecke , Marieluise Nagel , Christiane von Trümbach , Edelweiß Malchin , Anneliese Würtz , Karl Klüsner , Erik von Loewis , Georg Feicht , Erik Radolf , Herbert von Boxberger | |
Decoy of the Night is a German melodrama from 1959 by Wilm ten Haaf with Erika Remberg , Peter van Eyck and Peter Mosbacher in the leading roles. The story is based on an alleged factual report ("Lockvogel Ingeborg") by Heinz Karolus .
action
The less scrupulous Klaus Petzold has developed a very special business model: With his company, which outwardly presents itself as a normal detective agency, he is the logical consequence and at the same time counterpoint to the establishment of a marriage initiation institute. While some ensure that two people get under the hood, Petzold's Frankfurt establishment offers a service that is supposed to make it easier for customers to get a divorce. His clientele are primarily women from society who are willing to divorce and who want to get rid of their old age legally as quickly as possible. These are predominantly spouses who refuse the desired separation (for financial or image reasons) or who begin to skimp on maintenance payments. Petzold and his half-silk partner Albert Zanecki show the world of women a way out: they provide solid reasons for divorce and record them on celluloid!
With the seductive, lascivious Else Bary, who officially works as Petzold's secretary, the shrewd service provider also has a corresponding lady in his house, who should try as the decoy of the night, as the film title suggests, to put on ice, in other words, in captive men, who are unwilling to divorce Bringing situations to take compromising photos when the opportunity arises. This gives the commissioning women evidence of marital infidelity, with which the intended divorce in court could easily be accelerated. A guilty verdict for the man in court also has very tangible financial implications in determining the amount of the maintenance payments to be made. However, Else is increasingly getting into a conflict of conscience with her work and, as a result, gives up her job at Petzold after a tangible row with her boss. He is then forced to find a replacement as soon as possible, especially since a new client, the extremely wealthy Lea Amsel, the wife of the fashion mogul Karl Amsel Petzold, wants to use the services. In a café, detective chief Petzold speaks to the waitress Ingeborg. Ingeborg lives in poor conditions and has to share a little room with her colleague Betty. So Petzold does not have too big problems to poach Ingeborg, who is now hoping for much better earnings, and to work on Karl Amsel. At first he shows himself to be quite willing to go on the liming rod laid out for him ...
Production notes
Decoy of the Night was created in March / April 1959 in the CCC Studios in Berlin-Spandau and premiered on May 7, 1959 in the Munich Universum Cinema.
Helmut Ungerland was in charge of production, Otto Erdmann and Kurt Herlth created the film construction . Walter Kraatz designed the costumes. Erwin Schänzle was the chief sound engineer. Walter Hrich directed the camera under head cameraman Karl Schröder .
For the 1940s diva Maria Holst , star of several Willi Forst productions at the height of her fame, Decoy of the Night was the end of her screen career.
criticism
In the film service it says: "A novel adaptation, presented miserably by a rare array of theatrical mediocrity."
Individual evidence
- ↑ At that time the so-called guilt principle still applied in the Federal Republic of Germany, which made divorces infinitely difficult and was often associated with ugly side effects in court (keyword “washing dirty laundry”). This was not changed until 1977
- ↑ Decoy of the night. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 24, 2019 .
Web links
- Decoy night in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Decoy of the night at filmportal.de