Girls for the mambo bar
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Girls for the mambo bar |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1959 |
| length | 84, 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Wolfgang luck |
| script |
Hellmut Andics August Rieger |
| production |
Ernest Müller August Rieger |
| music | Claus Ogerman |
| camera | Walter cloth |
| cut | Ursula Norkus |
| occupation | |
and Edith Elmay , Horst Beck , Guido Wieland , Raoul Retzer , Inge Rassaerts , Renate Rohm , Aina Capell , Josef Hendrichs , Hansi Prinz , Macky Kaspar , Gaby King , Dalida , Alfred Böhm , Fatty George , Habiba | |
Girls for the Mambo-Bar is a German melodrama from 1959 by Wolfgang Glück with Kai Fischer , Rolf Kutschera and the young actress Gerlinde Locker in the leading roles.
action
In the Viennese nightclub milieu at the end of the 1950s. Many girls and young women who dream of a career as a singer and dancer end up in the Mambo-Bar, run by the manager Jimmy, because of a newspaper advertisement . The girls stranded here, from whom scanty clothing is of course required and who can try out their “skills” on stage, does not include the good Eva, a young Viennese woman and daughter of the bar owner Martini, who is not aware of her father's goings-on suspects. She is all the more shocked when she overhears a conversation between two women from the establishment.
Not that girls are wanted as singers or even striptease dancers. No, one of the women puts it in a nutshell: “Girls are obliged to stay in the restaurant until the end of the day”. When Evas asked what exactly this meant, the other explained: "Animating, keeping company, leaving with the guests in the private room ..." The girls' payment for services of this kind, which are equivalent to prostitution, is staggered accordingly: 12.5 percent of the income for the "usual", while the "service" in the private room brings the young girls 20 percent. The Viennese police have not remained inactive in the meantime, because the dark goings-on in the Mambo bar have also been noticed in the police station. The young policeman Tommy Kersten, who was smuggled into the Undercover amusement shed as a trumpeter, is supposed to get to the bottom of things. Soon he gets into a conflict of conscience, because Tommy falls in love with Eva, of all people, the daughter of his boss Martini, the mastermind behind the villains ...
Production notes
Girls for the Mambo-Bar was made immediately after Glücks' thematically not entirely dissimilar film, Das Nachtlokal zum Silbermond in Vienna, and premiered on July 23, 1959 in Frankfurt am Main. Two years earlier, Glück had revitalized the type of film trafficking in girls with his production of Girls at Risk.
Felix Smetana created the film structures .
The 28-year-old Sieghardt Rupp made his film debut here.
criticism
The film service says: "Groschen history stretched out with hits to the length of a feature film."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Girls for the Mambo Bar. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 24, 2019 .
Web links
- Girls for the Mambo Bar in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Girls for the Mambo bar at filmportal.de