Monpti

Movie
Original title	Monpti
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1957
length	96 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Helmut Käutner
script	Helmut Käutner Gábor by Vaszary Willibald Eser
production	NDF , Munich ( Harald Braun )
music	Bernhard Eichhorn
camera	Heinz Pehlke
cut	Anneliese Schönnenbeck
occupation
Romy Schneider : Anne-Claire Horst Buchholz : Monpti Mara Lane : Nadine Boy Gobert : Monpti II Olive Moorefield : Zaza Bum Krüger : Lord of No. 17 Iska Geri : wife of no.17 Bobby Todd : Fly eyed Joseph Offenbach : Editorial Secretary Helmut Käutner : Narrator Willibald Eser : acquaintance of Monpti II

Monpti is the title of a German film adaptation by Helmut Käutner , which had its cinema premiere on September 12, 1957 ( Lichtburg Essen ). It is based on the novel of the same name by Gábor von Vaszary , who also contributed to the script. Romy Schneider and Horst Buchholz can be seen in the leading roles .

action

In Paris park Jardin du Luxembourg , a young Hungarian student and the 17-year-old Anne-Claire know. She calls him Monpti - in French mon petit  - "my little one". The two fall in love and have a happy time. Anne-Claire claims to be the daughter of a wealthy family, but Monpti finds out after a while that she actually comes from a poor background. Annoyed at having been lied to by her, Monpti slaps her on the face and leaves her standing. When Anne-Claire chases after his taxi, she is hit by a car and seriously injured. On the hospital bed, he promises to marry her, but Anne-Claire dies a short time later from her injuries.

At the same time, the story of a second couple is shown, whose relationship is in stark contrast to the main plot. Ironically, this couple's wife is the one who runs over Anne-Claire.

Production notes

The film was produced from May 2, 1957 in the Bavaria Filmstudio Munich-Geiselgasteig. The exterior shots were taken in Paris.

Reviews

“A 23-year-old draftsman from Budapest, starving in Paris, plays his erotic cat-and-mouse game with an orphaned 17-year-old seamstress, until the girl's accidental death puts an end to it. The melancholy romantic comedy is narrated by an older bistro visitor who acts as a kind of keyhole-gazer in a cabaret-pointed farce. A melodramatically condensed, sometimes quite suggestive gender struggle for male desire and female delaying tactics, with the fascinating young Romy Schneider at the center. "

- Lexicon of international film

literature

• Gábor von Vaszary : Monpti. Novel . (German by the author.) Thiele, Munich and Vienna 2009, 358 pages, ISBN 978-3-85179-015-3 .

Web links

• Monpti in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Monpti at Filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ CineGraph - Lexicon for German-language film - Helmut Käutner
2. ↑ Monpti. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .