Morality 63

Movie
Original title	Morality 63
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1963
length	100 minutes
Age rating	FSK 18
Rod
Director	Rolf Thiele
script	Rolf Thiele
production	Franz Seitz junior; for Franz Seitz film production
music	Norbert Schultze
camera	Wolf Wirth
cut	Ira Oberberg
occupation
	Nadja Tiller : Marion Hafner; Mario Adorf : Axel Rottmann, reporter; Charles Regnier : Dr. Fight, newspaper publisher; Fritz Tillmann : Eduard Meyer-Cleve, industrialist; Peter Parten : Hans Meyer-Cleve, his son, student; Heidi Bill : Buschie, Meyer-Cleve's daughter; Lore Bill : Pussy, Meyer-Cleve's daughter; Erika von Thellmann : Baroness Sassel; Tilo von Berlepsch : Dr. Merkel, investigating judge; Renate Schacht : Marion's mother; Kurt Zips : Richard Wagner, officer servant; Rudolf Forster : General a. D.;

Moral 63 is a German feature film directed by Rolf Thiele from 1963.

action

The young Marion Hafner is arrested by the police during the Cologne Carnival . The reason: pimping, commercial fornication, excitement of public nuisance - she runs a brothel and was reported by a client. Reporter Axel Rottmann senses a scandalous story for his newspaper and signs a contract with Marion: 100,000 DM for all the details on tape. She recapitulates.

Marion comes from a respected family. The mother is noble, holds frivolous celebrations in the family house and lets her daughter be seduced at the age of 17. When she later kills a suitor, she is arrested and dies in custody. Marion takes the help of newspaper publisher Dr. Fight against who preaches morality in his articles, but always keeps several lovers for himself. Marion soon rises to his deputy and elicits many a spicy story from the high-ranking gentlemen in their bed. Dr. Fights opens a second branch in Bonn that Marion runs in a hotel and where the men go out and in. When other newspapers Dr. Wanting to scrutinize Kämpf's private life, he goes underground and pays Marion high for her silence.

Marion moves into her own villa in Bonn, where she opens a brothel. The industrialist Eduard Meyer-Cleve is one of her regular customers. He finally instructs Marion to seduce his son Hans, who, completely spiritual, does not want to follow in his father's footsteps. Hans believes he has found true love in Marion and is horrified when he learns about her job. While Eduard wants to turn his son into a man and does not know that he has long since renounced Marion, he believes his daughters are innocent. However, they regularly go out with strange men while Hans covers them.

When Marion throws a celebration to which all visitors are supposed to appear disguised as animals, Hans persuades his father to go together. Hans also secretly invites his sisters to have fun with men during the celebration. When Eduard notices this, he is beside himself with horror, wants to attack Marion and Hans and is finally removed from the party. It is he who reports Marion to the police and has her arrested.

On Ash Wednesday , one day after Marion was arrested, it was announced that Eduard shot himself. As the only witness died with this, Marion was finally released.

production

Moral 63 was filmed from February 24 to April 29, 1963 in Munich , Cologne and the CCC Studios Berlin-Spandau . It was released in theaters on August 23, 1963 and was first broadcast on Tele 5 on November 6, 1992.

The Rolls-Royce that Nadja Tiller drives in Moral 63 was made available for filming by Hans Herbert Blatzheim .

criticism

In 1963, Der Spiegel criticized the fact that “[Thiele's] inventory, taken from the lady's bed, […] turned out to be the bland cabaret of a director who was evidently delighted with the exhibition of the sexual. [...] Thiele's favorite actress Nadja Tiller - who already appeared in the Thiele films ' Das Mädchen Rosemarie ', 'Lulu' and 'Labyrinth' - is traditionally used as a male-eradicating bitch. "

In 1963, the film-dienst ruled: “It's not about criticism, it's about cheap fun.” The lexicon of international film published by film-dienst in 1990 wrote that the film was “intended as a satirical provocation, but rather a bit of lasciviousness Amusement."

Cinema wrote: “The cheeky satire about double standards is itself voyeuristic. Conclusion: morals? In 1963 everyone was keen on Nadja! "

Web links

Morale 63 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Moral 63 at filmportal.de
Moral 63 at Seitz Filmproduktion

Individual evidence

^ Hans Herbert Blatzheim . In: Der Spiegel , No. 15, 1963, p. 99.
↑ New in Germany: Morals 63 . In: Der Spiegel , No. 36, 1963, p. 86.
↑ HS: Morality 63 . In: film-dienst , No. 36, 1963.
↑ Klaus Brüne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 5. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 2644.
↑ Cf.cinema.de

[1] Hans Herbert Blatzheim . In: Der Spiegel , No. 15, 1963, p. 99.

[2] New in Germany: Morals 63 . In: Der Spiegel , No. 36, 1963, p. 86.

[3] HS: Morality 63 . In: film-dienst , No. 36, 1963.

[4] Klaus Brüne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 5. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 2644.

[5] Cf.cinema.de