Madeleine Tel. 13 62 11
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| Original title | Madeleine Tel. 13 62 11 |
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| Country of production | Federal Republic of Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1958 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
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| Director | Kurt Meisel |
| script |
Will Berthold , Felix Lützkendorf |
| production | Arca-Filmproduktion ( Gero Wecker ) |
| music | Willy Mattes |
| camera | Kurt Grigoleit |
| cut | Wolfgang Wehrum |
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Madeleine Tel. 13 62 11 is a German feature film between film drama , crime film and exploitation film from 1958. The black and white film shot in West Berlin based on a "factual report" by Will Berthold was directed by Kurt Meisel . Gero Wecker was the producer . The world premiere took place on June 26, 1958 in the Lichtburg in Essen .
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A young lady races to her death on the Kurfürstendamm . It is a call girl , one of those girls on their way from the economic miracle benefit. Kriminalrat Semler, who gives lectures on the subject of prostitution at the university, also knows about this . The student Karin is so enthusiastic about his statements that she wants to write a legal doctoral thesis on it. Semler makes his files available to her, but warns her not to conduct her own environmental studies.
Meanwhile, the engineer Gert Klaiber meets the elegant Madeleine. Little does he know that the woman he falls in love with is a call girl. Wealthy customers can make an appointment with Madeleine on the phone number 13 62 11. She is, so to speak, the "star" of a certain Mrs. Clavius. The unscrupulous matchmaker resides in a feudal villa and takes advantage of several willing girls. In addition, she is involved in the sliding business of the director Nikki Maybach from Düsseldorf , who always brings new girls to her. Maybach is arrested and the police send Commissioner Wolf Siebert to Berlin, who tries to break into Mrs. Clavius' establishment with an alleged recommendation by Maybach.
After many years, the student Karin meets her former classmate Madeleine again and soon discovers her secret. While Gert Klaiber is still wondering what occupation the wealthy Madeleine is doing, Karin goes to Mrs. Clavius on the pretext of wanting to become a call girl. Madeleine has seriously fallen in love with Gert and wants to end her previous life. When the unscrupulous Mrs. Clavius threatens to reveal everything to Gert, Madeleine reluctantly receives her next customer: Detective Inspector Wolf Siebert. He receives some incriminating statements which are enough to put an end to Mrs. Clavius' business. On leaving the apartment, the inspector meets the engineer Gert, to whom Madeleine finally confesses everything. But he doesn't want to have anything to do with a call girl and leaves the house. Madeleine is desperate and tries to commit suicide .
After Karin's attempts to persuade Gert to return also fail, Madeleine sees no other way and returns to Mrs. Clavius. A dubious party takes place in their villa on the same day. Scantily clad and naked girls dance striptease in front of older men. Nobody suspects that the police have surrounded the building. Kriminalrat Semler and his colleagues can blow up the call girl ring and arrest Ms. Clavius. Madeleine is finally free and has only one thought left: Gert Klaiber. He has taken on an order in India and is already on the way to Tempelhof Airport . Shortly before departure, the two of them have a discussion that gives Madeleine hope for a future together.
History of origin
prehistory
With his Arca film production, founded in 1953, Gero Wecker had already made several successful scandalous films, including Liane, the girl from the jungle (1956), Liane, the white slave and Different from you and me (§ 175) (both 1957). Not least the sensational murder of Rosemarie Nitribitt in October 1957 prompted Wecker to bring two films on the subject of prostitution onto the screen in 1958. These were Madeleine Tel. 13 62 11 by Kurt Meisel and Liebe kann wie Poison by the controversial and scandal-tested director Veit Harlan .
Pre-production and script
The successful writer Will Berthold and the experienced screenwriter Felix Lützkendorf wrote the template based on the "factual report" Liebe frei Haus , which Berthold had written under his pseudonym Peter Martin Deusel.
The Hungarian-British actress Eva Bartok was engaged for the main role . In addition, numerous well-known film and theater actors such as Alexander Kerst , Heinz Drache , Ilse Steppat and Alfred Balthoff were hired . For the role of Karin, the young actress Sabina Stuhlmann , who is also in love can like poison , was engaged . This was discovered during a large-scale casting that producer Gero Wecker had organized in collaboration with the women's magazine Ihr Freund . However, Sabina Stuhlmann had made her film debut earlier in the fairy tale film Aufruhr im Schlaraffenland , shot in 1957 .
production
The shooting took place in West Berlin in the first half of 1958 . The interior shots were shot in the Arca film studio in Berlin-Pichelsberg . For the Design the film architects Ernst H. Albrecht and Hans Auffenberg responsible. Heinz Oestergaard designed the costumes . Production manager was Alfred Bittins .
Film music
The soundtrack comes from Willy Mattes . It was recorded by Erwin Lehn and the Südfunk-Tanzorchester.
reception
publication
The movie poster promised "a moral image of our time - an indictment against the black market of love". Accordingly, on June 23, 1958 , the FSK only released the film in an abridged version and released for people aged 18 and over. The world premiere took place on June 26th in the Lichtburg in Essen . Internationally, the film was marketed with the distribution titles Veneri del peccato (Italy), Ring Madeleine - Kärlek är mitt yrke and Naked in the Night (United States). The first and so far only broadcast on German television took place in the late 1980s on Tele 5 in the unabridged version. Another re-release has not been made in Germany so far.
Reviews
“A strange mixture arose from a so-called“ factual report ”that an illustrated magazine dedicated to the German call girls, prostitutes of the more expensive type who were placed over the phone: Sultry morals and weepy heart drama, social science college, confused sermons and dilapidated detective stories. After all, the director Kurt Meisel achieved natural moments with solid stage actors such as Alfred Balthoff and Heinz Drache. Eva Bartok also has a respectable expressiveness as the luxuriously sunken, desperate and repentant Madeleine. "
"Filming of a» factual report «in the style of the 50s: First comes vice, then morality."
Others
Under the title Madeleine Tel. 13 62 11 and after the “factual report” by Will Berthold, a radio play was also released in 1983 as part of the bestseller series of the Europa label . Speakers and roles were Ursela Monn (Madeleine Petrowitt), Astrid Kollex (Karin Karell), Jörg Pleva (Gert Klaiber), Uwe Friedrichsen (Commissioner Siebert), Wolfgang Völz (Kriminalrat Semmler), Gisela Trowe (Mrs. Clavius), Pamela Punti (waitress ), Gottfried Kramer (professor), Ferdinand Dux (Mr. Weber) and Pinkas Braun (narrator).
Web links
- Madeleine Tel. 13 62 11 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Madeleine Tel. 13 62 11 at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ 87 minutes for cinema projection (24 images / second), 84 minutes for television playback (25 images / second), film length: 2381 meters (FSK version)
- ^ Film: New in Germany . In: Der Spiegel . No. 30 , 1958, pp. 48 ( online ).
- ↑ Madeleine Tel. 13 62 11. In: Lexicon of international films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Madeleine Tel. 13 62 11 ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at hoerspielwelten.de ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
