Sin began with Eve
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Sin began with Eve |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1958 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
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| Director | Fritz Umgelter |
| script | Dieter Hildebrandt , Margh Malina |
| production | Wolf C. Hartwig for Rapid-Film GmbH (Munich) |
| music | Klaus Ogermann |
| camera | Paul Grupp |
| cut | Friedel Buckow |
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Eva sin began is a German, episodic -based comedy film from 1958 based on a script of comedian Dieter Hildebrandt in cooperation with the author Margh Malina. Directed by Fritz Umgelter , Willy Fritsch , Mady Rahl , Michael Cramer and Karin Dor play the leading roles.
action
Director Gregor stages a play in the course of which the young actors Dinah and Jürgen - called "Mark" in the play - are supposed to play an erotic love scene. The demure Dinah finds it difficult because this scene, as she later tells her director, corresponds to a personal experience with her colleague Jürgen, which led to the separation of the formerly engaged couple in real life. In addition, she describes herself as a decent girl who cannot do anything with the supposedly sought-after eroticism of the present. When Gregor the discussion becomes too colorful, he dismisses Dinah and casts the part with Barbara, who happens to be present, who interprets the role completely differently and creates a sex bomb. After Gregor explained the difference between sex and eroticism to her in vain, he tries again with Dinah, but first asks the young girl for a one-to-one conversation.
Dinah again underlines her virtue and refers to the great poets of the past, in whose works roles like hers did not appear. Gregor contradicts and, using a sculpture as an example, provides a story about the role of women in ancient Greece , where Dinah would have been trained as a hetaera instead of acting , because theater there was only performed by men. In the following scene, conceived as a look back at Athens, all actors in the film now take on their roles in Greek guise.
Gregor hopes to have convinced Dinah with this and would like to continue rehearsing the play. But Dinah continues to hesitate, so this time it is a marriage in the Middle Ages that must serve as an example. In the following episode , which is literally staged as a chamber play, Karin Dor and Willy Fritsch celebrate the prelude to knightly adultery.
Again based on a picture, the cultural-historical journey continues to the Renaissance and into the Thirty Years War , where this time the actors in contemporary costume perform a happy-sinful music and drinking scene that leads to a dialogue between Hanne Wieder and Klaus Havenstein .
In the meantime the theater people have ended up in the canteen, while Gregor continues to try to attract Dinah's role. Now he compares the present with the lovemaking of the rococo and travels to the French Revolution . This time, too, the story continues using various paintings by old masters and ends up in a town house, where Michael Cramer, again as a young master, paints a moral picture of Mady Rahl as the woman of the house.
Tired, Gregor left Dinah and Jürgen alone and also went to the canteen. The young couple speaks out, but not without taking another excursion into history. Various paintings lead to the Belle Époque . Jürgen describes a gentlemen's evening at the Moulin Rouge , where Angèle Durand with the hit With Eva began the sin and lead a ballet ensemble from Paris' Nouvelle Ève into the finale of the film.
Dinah and Jürgen have reconciled, but not Dinah has learned from history, but Jürgen. The film ends in the style of the 1950s with a virtuous Dinah, who has proposed marriage to Jürgen in love. Director Gregor would like to finally continue rehearsing, but it is the end of the day that a unionized Mr Weber emphatically reminds us.
Production notes
Sin began with Eva was shot in Munich in the spring of 1958 and was released in West German cinemas on August 15, 1958.
The screenwriter Dieter Hildebrandt had founded the political cabaret Münchner Lach- und Schießgesellschaft two years earlier together with Klaus Havenstein and Hans Jürgen Diedrich, among others , and got both colleagues to play a role in this film. Hanne Wieder, who had also been successfully rooted in cabaret until then, also appeared in front of the camera for the first time.
Recorded as a producer of earlier and later in the first place for his morals films known Wolf C. Hartwig responsible, which jointly founded with his business partner Dieter Fritko DEFIR film distributor went bankrupt a year later.
In 1962, the then new director Francis Ford Coppola adapted the film, which was shot in black and white, and supplemented it with his own color film material. Not only because of this, the cabaret character of the original was significantly changed. The focus of the depiction was now, among other things, the Playboy icon June Wilkinson , which per se gave a new direction to the film , which was again shown in the cinema under the title The Bellboy And The Playgirls .
music
The popular Belgian singer Angèle Durand sings the title With Eva began the sin began , musically accompanied by the Max Greger orchestra , exclusively in the film.
criticism
"Cabaret episode film in the cautious speculative style of the 50s."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lending bankruptcy. Der Spiegel from October 21, 1959, accessed on June 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Sin began with Eve. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 3, 2020 .
Web links
- Eva sin began in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Sin began with Eva at filmportal.de