Madeleine and the legionnaire

Movie
Original title	Madeleine and the legionnaire
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1958
length	70 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Wolfgang Staudte
script	Johannes Mario Simmel Werner Jörg Lüddecke Emil Burri
production	Melodie Film, Berlin ( Peter Schaeffer's Aldo von Pinelli )
music	Siegfried Franz
camera	Václav Vich
cut	Martha Dübber
occupation
Hildegard Knef : Madeleine Durand Bernhard Wicki : Luigi Locatelli Hannes Messemer : Robert Altmann Helmut Schmid : Pat Kilby Joachim Hansen : Kurt Gerber Harry Meyen : Jean de Maire Werner Peters : Brouillard

Madeleine and the Legionnaire is an elaborate film production of German post-war cinema. Stars like Hildegard Knef and Bernhard Wicki play under the direction of Wolfgang Staudte . The film was shot on location in Morocco , among others . Despite all the effort, the film was a commercial failure.

action

The young French teacher Madeleine Durand has no choice. After the attack by rebellious Arabs in Algeria , she has to join three deserted Foreign Legionnaires and their overseers for better or worse . The supervisor Robert Altmann also turns out to be a deserter . An adventurous hunt begins. One of the deserters perishes, the others end up in France . Altmann later shows up in Madeleine's hometown as the police are still looking for him.

Production notes

The film was shot from September 9 to the end of October 1957. The Ufa ateliers in Berlin-Tempelhof served as a studio, while the outdoor shots were taken in Cuxhaven , North Africa (including Tangier and Algiers ), France and Italy. The premiere took place on January 21, 1958 in the Zoo-Palast in Berlin.

Reviews

• Filmdienst : "Adventure fable shifted into the non-binding, dramaturgically knotted so awkwardly that neither Staudte's efforts in image composition and montage nor the prominent incorrect cast can do much."

See also

• The Black Battalion ( Černý prapor , CSSR 1958, directed by Vladimír Čech)
• Escape from Hell

Web links

• Madeleine and Legionnaires in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Madeleine and the legionnaire at filmportal.de
• deutscher-tonfilm.de ( Memento from December 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ CineGraph - Lexicon for German-language film - Wolfgang Staudte