Pension Clausewitz (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Pension Clausewitz |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1967 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
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| Director | Ralph Habib |
| script | Nero Brandenburg |
| production | Raphael Nussbaum |
| music | Horst A. Hass |
| camera | Benno Bellenbaum |
| cut | Edith Dagan |
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Pension Clausewitz is a German trash and exploitation film from 1967 by Ralph Habib with Wolfgang Kieling and Maria Brockerhoff in the leading roles.
action
The main character of the story, a certain Stemmka, comes into the possession of a Berlin brothel called “Pension Schölermann” through an inheritance. In order to freshen up his “establishment”, Stemmka immediately recruits two attractive young women, including the mannequin Marlies, whose fiancé Werner is stuck in East Berlin and prevented from fleeing to the West. In the brothel, it is not only the sedate gentlemen of advanced age who meet to hold one or the other pastoral hour. Rather, through the aforementioned constellation, the brothel is increasingly becoming a meeting place for the secret services. A nuclear scientist from the Federal Republic of Germany comes and goes here as well as a Stasi officer, a representative of the CIA and his communist opponent beyond the iron curtain.
Marlies wants to save her Werner from the violence of the Stasi and therefore agrees to cooperate with the GDR. For this reason, she immediately passes on the secrets that are divulged in the brothel to the communist enemy during playful games of the blind man's buff and bed whispers. Their duplicity comes to an end the moment their fiancé manages to escape from over there to the western sector of the city. Now you can turn the page and help the Western Allies to dig the spy nest "Pension Schölermann" and to smash the East German agent ring.
Production notes
Pension Clausewitz , also known as Haus der Erotik , was created in February and March 1967 in Berlin and was premiered on April 23, 1967. The story was inspired by the events surrounding the real Pension Clausewitz , which caused a tangible scandal at the end of 1964. In order not to give the impression of a factual retelling of the actual events, the Clausewitz guesthouse was called Schölermann.
The FSK credited the film with the fact that the "fluctuating pastiche, which is often pure slapstick", softened the rhetoric of sensitive situations and frivolous remarks. Nevertheless, several images had to be cut showing the breasts of striptease dancers.
The later comedian Karl Dall made a short appearance in this trash film as a pimp with two words of dialogue: “Poach, wa!” His three other colleagues from the fun combo Insterburg & Co. also make short appearances here, but they were little more than extras.
Reviews
“Any resemblance to living people, the film assumes, is not intended; it is not achieved either. Because the affair of the Berlin sex and espionage dumps has changed a lot in the Lichtspiel: In a Pension Schölermann (landlord: Wolfgang Kieling) replacement strippers squeak, and secret service idiots wedge themselves with temporary workers from the Kyritz city theater on the knatter. The moral piece nevertheless wants to throw light on shadows. With the construction of the wall, explains a spokesman, Berlin's love affair worsened - the "ladies who live in the east and love in the west" did not come. And the others are warned that they are prostituting for Pankow. The French director Ralph Habib is also tearing the veil around the term orgy: orgy is when old people fish for lingerie with fishhooks. "
“This German film (directed by Ralph Habib) combines the serious problems of a divided Berlin with cheap and sensational sex demonstrations in a tasteless way. In no phase does the film deny its reference to the Berlin amusement pension scandal, in which agents from East and West had unwanted rendezvous between beds and built-in microphones and cameras. However, it focuses on a love story between a West Berlin mannequin and her fiancé, who was prevented from escaping by the SSD in the eastern sector of the city. In order to save him, the girl allows herself to be blackmailed into playing the decoy of the brothel boarding house. But before she threatens to succumb to the environment around her, her fiancé, who has now fled, can free her. Both are now helping to hand over the agent headquarters to the western authorities. Wolfgang Kieling, Friedrich Schönfelder and the beautiful Maria Brockerhoff are interested in the main roles. "
In the lexicon of the international film it says: "Banal comedy with flat dialogue and sex scenes between some satirical and burlesque elements."
The evangelical film observer comes to a devastating verdict : “An embarrassing film about commercial love and espionage in divided Berlin, in which the wall and its circumstances appear merely as a chic scenario. Absolutely to be rejected. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jürgen Kniep: “No youth release!” Film censorship in West Germany 1949 - 1990 , Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2010, p. 231
- ↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 2: C - F. John Paddy Carstairs - Peter Fritz. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 261.
- ^ Pension Clausewitz. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 31, 2015 .
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband Munich, Review No. 183/1967
Web links
- Pension Clausewitz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Pension Clausewitz at filmportal.de