Naked as God made them
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Naked as God made them |
| Original title | Naked like God she created Nudi come Dio li creò |
| Country of production |
Austria Germany Italy |
| original language | German , Italian |
| Publishing year | 1958 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hans Schott-Schöbinger |
| script | Johannes Mario Simmel |
| production | YES Vesely |
| music | Peter Sandloff |
| camera | Franz Weihmayr |
| cut | Karl Aulitzky |
| occupation | |
and Birgit Bergen , Albert Hehn , Karl-Heinz Peters , Sepp Rist , Petra Unkel | |
Naked as God made her is an Austrian-German-Italian moral drama from 1958 by Hans Schott-Schöbinger with Marisa Allasio , Rik Battaglia , Carl Wery and Ellen Schwiers in the leading roles. The script for this colportage story was written by the later bestselling author Johannes Mario Simmel .
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The story begins on a summer night in a forest aisle in the German-Austrian border area near Salzburg. There two men are hastily moving sacks of coffee from one truck to the other. Gina Gerber lives in the immediate vicinity, near Bad Reichenhall. She is a passionate, sensual and curvy blonde who corresponds to the common man's dream. Gina is in steady hands, her fiancé is called Joschi Türk, who works as a foreman at the Reichenhall gravel and cement works. Türk has big plans; he wants to build his own house for himself and his future family. At the moment he can barely afford a crackling motorcycle. When they are both at dinner, there is a knock on the door and customs officials ask to be admitted. You ask for Joschi's alibi for that evening, as he is obviously involved in the coffee smuggling. The unsuspecting Gina, who fears that her boy of heart has done something wrong, lies and says that he was with her the whole time. As soon as the customs officers have left, Gina makes a scene for her lover. She believes that her Joschi would cheat on her. A heated argument ensues and Joschi hits Gina in the face, whereupon she leaves him.
First of all, Gina wants to find some distance and peace and goes to the Dolomites , where her uncle, Father Leonhard, lives as a friar in the secluded Rosengarten monastery. The young woman once grew up there as a decent girl before she went out into the wide world. In the monastery she also meets her old friend Maurus again, who is to be ordained in the autumn and will thus join the priesthood. But Maurus, who has also experienced worldly life, is overcome with doubts about a predetermined path to God, and with Gina's arrival the old familiarity of the two young people of yore comes back. Near the monastery there is a construction workers' settlement with Testeron-impregnated, vigorous men who look after every skirt and who sometimes lose their horses at the look at such a seductive blonde like Gina. The major construction site includes bulldozers, excavators, semi-trailers and other heavy machinery. The men, thrown together from all kinds of nations, are supposed to blast and dig a new, widened road for transit traffic in and through the mountain. In tow of these construction workers, busloads of brightly made-up, provocative girls who promise themselves a nice salary on the weekend arrive every now and then.
Joschi Türk has also just arrived. He has found out where Gina has gone and wants to persuade her to come back to him. Since Gina is very hesitant in this regard, he accepts the post of site manager in order to be around her for a longer period of time. The experienced, solid Priska is seen by many of the men as a "full woman" who cannot be fooled so quickly. She heads the construction workers canteen and immediately develops an interest in the well-built, muscular Joschi. Since the new foreman wants to drown his grief because of Gina's rejection in alcohol, Priska fills Joschi and then, when he is no longer in control of his senses, drags him up to her little room.
The construction workers camp receives its drinking water from a reservoir created by the monastery, which in turn is fed by spring water from the glacier region. Now, in midsummer, the glacier has almost thawed away and drinking water is gradually becoming scarce. This leads to increased tensions between the monastery owners and the builders, who are not particularly green anyway due to serious moral differences. The conflict finally breaks out when the water supply is completely cut off. Somebody ripped out the pipe connection to the monastery. The construction workers Paul and Pepe are behind it, and they are starting to divert the water directly from the mountain to the construction camp. The monks are deeply angry about their arbitrariness, and some get into a serious fight with several construction workers. Joschi intervenes and can prevent the worst.
When Gina decides to end her stay at the monastery and return to the city, a nocturnal storm makes the connecting road impassable. Since she can't get any further, she looks for shelter in the camp canteen. There she comes across a real madhouse at Priskas Beritt. Like an orgy, loud, drunk guys have fun with willing, cheap girls. When she discovered Joschi among the bawling guys, Gina stormed in disgust into the darkness of the night. There she meets Maurus, who is in love with her and who has secretly followed Gina. To make it finally clear to him that he and she will not have a future together, Gina throws herself into the arms of Joschi, who ran after her from the canteen, and theatrically asks him for forgiveness. Disappointed, Maurus leaves, gets on a truck of the construction crew and drives off as if from his senses. He breaks a roadblock and speeds towards the abyss. The next morning, Maurus is already missing in the monastery. Some of the monks set out to look for him.
Last night's storm buried a section of the pass road, and the construction workers are therefore starting the preparatory work for a blast to clear the road again. Pepe, who is busy with the preparation, finds the unconscious Maurus, who slipped into the abyss, but survived. Maurus wakes up from his unconsciousness and climbs up the slope again. Meanwhile, the first demolition is imminent. When Pepe finally reaches Maurus, he presses him, standing under a mountain overhang, firmly against him. Since the last detonator did not detonate, Pepe believes that nothing will follow and leaves the safe shelter with the renegade brother in faith. Father Leonhard, who spotted the two while looking for Maurus, runs up to them. Joschi tries with screams to stop the old father from walking on because the dynamite for the last blast is still hot. Then there is a violent detonation that pulls Father Leonhard to his death. His funeral is like a big celebration of reconciliation: Joschi embraces Gina and the construction workers make their peace with the monks. All of them embark on the convoy of the dead priest to his final resting place in the small monastery chapel.
Production notes
Naked as God Created She was created in Austria and the Dolomites (northern Italy) in mid-1958 and was premiered on November 27 of the same year in the Lichtburg in Essen.
The film structures were made by Hans Ledersteger , who retired that same year, and Hans Zehetner . This was also the last (now tiny) film appearance for the former child star Petra Unkel .
Reviews
Der Spiegel judged: “The title, which suggests a moral film, is misleading: it is about religious colportage. (…) The pretty Italian main actors Marisa Allasio and Rik Battaglia behave just as stiffly under the direction of Hanns Schott-Schöbinger as the majority of the German partners. In contrast to the cinema-like monastery, the bare, dusty construction site is apparently realistic. "
The film service says: "Colportage film that records both the monastery and the camp milieu down to the caricature and uses its religious motifs for melodramatic and sensational effects."
At FilmArchivAustria you can read: " The Sound of Music in a renegade penguin outfit: Catholic sexploitation according to Johannes Mario Simmel."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Naked as God created them in Der Spiegel 50/1958
- ↑ Naked as God made them. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 24, 2019 .
- ^ Criticism on filmarchiv.at
Web links
- Naked as God created in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Naked as God made them at filmportal.de