Madame and her niece
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| Original title | Madame and her niece |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1969 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
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| Director | Eberhard Schröder |
| script | Werner P. Zibaso based on the novella “Yvette” by Guy de Maupassant |
| production | Wolf C. Hartwig |
| music | Gert Wilden |
| camera | Klaus Werner |
| cut | Herbert Taschner |
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Madame and her niece is a German feature film from 1969 with Ruth-Maria Kubitschek and Edwige Fenech in the two title roles.
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Michelle von Obardi is a middle-aged lady who has a much older lover named Georg von Hallstein, who is a general manager of a company. While he whispers one declaration of love after another in her ear in bed, the pragmatic Madame has completely different things on her mind. Suddenly the old man dies while making love and Michelle has to quickly go from her lover's magnificent, wintry, snow-covered country house back to the city, because the dead man's butler dutifully informed the cheater's wife. On the drive home in the proper Mercedes with the chauffeur of her deceased lover, Michelle is annoyed that she did not exclude Georg more during his lifetime, because now she has to think more about the financing of her future than she would like. Arrived in Munich, Madame von Obardi is looking for her daughter Yvette, but she stubbornly pretends to be her niece in order to hide her true age. Despite the libertine sentiments of her peers, Yvette likes to be demure, but nonetheless has a lot of fist behind her ears. She is not studying, as her mother wishes, but at this point is spending a rendezvous with a photographer who specializes in erotic pictures. Nevertheless, she insists: "No nude photos!"
Georg's son and heir to the family fortune, Peter von Hallstein, would be a good substitute for Madame Obardi, she says, but he doesn't seem overly interested in a permanent bond, and certainly not with a significantly older woman. The woman in her late thirties manages to seduce Peter, but she overestimates her influence on him. In addition, she gets tough competition ... namely in the form of her well-rounded and significantly younger daughter, pardon "niece". Yvette has her own eye on the smart handsome guy, who completely suits her taste. The photo model, who is part of the Munich crowd and Bussi-Bussi scene, has to learn that her attractiveness alone is not enough to make Peter von Hallstein compliant. With the family friend, Dr. Fink, asks her for advice. Then Yvette develops her own, promising strategy and begins to make herself interesting for Peter: Sometimes she plays the seductive, then again the shy-touch-not-touch. Peter likes these different facets of Yvette and starts to get involved in her games. With her strategy, however, Yvette gets in the way of her mother, who absolutely wants to get Peter as the financier of her future. In the end, however, the beauty and cunning of youth prevail, whose modesty proclaims: wait with sex until marriage. Yvette stands in her wedding dress and winks meaningfully at the viewer from the screen.
Production notes
The film Madame and Her Niece , shot in wintry Germany in the first few weeks of 1969, marked the feature film directing debut of the previous assistant director Eberhard Schröder and was premiered on May 9, 1969.
The film constructions come from the hand of Herta Hareiter . Ludwig Spitaler took over the production management. Producer Hartwig's former wife, the inactive ex-actress Dorothee Parker since 1964 , briefly found a job as Schröder's assistant director for this film.
With the success of this film, Eberhard Schröder had established himself as a specialist in sex and erotic films.
Maupassant's original “Yvette” was filmed for the first time in 1937/38 in the German Reich by Wolfgang Liebeneiner .
Reviews
"Based on the novella" Yvette "by Maupassant, but transposed to the German high society of our day, this elaborate German color film tries to combine ... amusing entertainment with harsh social criticism. Cast with Ruth Maria Kubitschek and Edwige Fenech in the female lead roles, he has some charming scenes, but he is bored with the ... bed and party scenes. "
In the lexicon of international films it says: “Poor little film that wrongly invokes Maupassant to legitimize his simple-minded bed and striptease scenes.” Even the Protestant film observer does not believe in the work: “Of the author's limited imagination and Director's testifying film, whose humor and entertainment value are exhausted in clumsy personalities and in an accumulation of props that are supposed to simulate a luxury atmosphere, which does not contain any trace of boredom. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Madame and her niece. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 4, 2015 .
- ↑ Evangelical Press Association Munich, Review No. 215/1969
Web links
- Madame and her niece in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Madame and her niece at filmportal.de