Red roses, red lips, red wine
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Red roses, red lips, red wine |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1953 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Paul Martin |
| script |
Bobby E. Lüthge , Jacob Geis , Paul Martin |
| production | Willie Hoffmann-Andersen |
| music | Wolfgang Zeller |
| camera | Albert Benitz |
| cut | Martha Dübber |
| occupation | |
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Red roses, red lips, red wine is a German love melodrama by Paul Martin from 1953.
action
Around 1944 the art dealer Herbert Thormann and his secretary Nora Krüger lived in Waldenberg Castle, which was run by Countess Waldenberg. Thormann actually lives and works in Italy , where he wants to return after the war - with Nora as his wife. She is surprised by his proposal of marriage, especially since she falls in love with Captain Hans Westhoff, who is on leave from the front for a few days , and spends the little time with him that he can stay. When the news came later that Westhoff had fallen in Italy, Nora was deeply shaken. After the end of the war she went back to Munich and finished her studies in art history, which had been interrupted by the war .
She is the only one of her year to get a job straight away - Herbert asks her to support him professionally in Italy and after some hesitation Nora accepts the offer. Hans Westhoff also lives in Italy. He has deserted with his friend Alfred and lives in the wilderness, where Alfred provides him with food. He wants to make his way to Germany, is taken by GIs a little way in their car, identified as a German and shortly afterwards embroiled in a shootout with Italian looters in which a GI is killed. Hans escapes, but is now wanted by the police as the alleged leader of the looters. The actual leader, the Pole, got him a forged passport in the name of "Braun", which should enable him to escape to Germany. Hans sees Nora in a bar accompanied by Herbert Thormann and learns from Alfred's friend Bianca that Nora will marry Herbert. He therefore does not show himself to Nora and plans to escape. What he does not know is that the Pole wants to have him murdered as a witness to the attack on the GIs as soon as he appears at the port. Two other participants in the attack want to have the overpowering Pole arrested and report the planned murder to the police.
Meanwhile, Nora has had time to mourn Hans. Although she doesn't love him, she accepts a second marriage proposal from Herbert. A short time later she happens to find out that Alfred is in town. He leads them to Hans in a bar and they both spend the night together. In the meantime, the police carried out a raid on the port in which they wanted to arrest Hans and the Pole. When the police appear in the bar, Hans is just about to escape. The next morning, Nora asked Herbert to get a forged passport from the police prefect friend for a former soldier named Braun who wanted to go to Germany but had no papers. The police prefect, in turn, tells Herbert that Braun is actually the Hans wanted by the police for the murder of a GI and that Nora was checked by the police last night in a seedy bar, where she was apparently there with a man. Back at the villa, Herbert confronts Nora. She confesses everything to him, but insists on Hans' innocence. Herbert promises to help Hans if Nora would banish him from her life afterwards. Inevitably, Nora agrees and pretends to leave Hans for Herbert. He, in turn, learned from the prefect that Hans is innocent, but keeps this from Nora and enables Hans to escape to Germany with a forged passport.
The next morning Herbert finds Nora lifeless. She tried to commit suicide but can be saved. Only now does Herbert realize how much Nora loves Hans and releases her. She returns to Waldenberg, where she happily falls into Hans' arms.
production
According to the opening credits, the film is based on "Motifs from the song of the same name, Red Roses, Red Lips, Red Wine by Michael Harden and André Hoff " and a novella by Bobby E. Lüthge and Jakob Geis, who both wrote the script for the film.
The production took place in the Berlin-Tempelhof studio, the outdoor recordings were made in Füssen , Naples and Amalfi . The feature film was mass-launched in theaters on September 18, 1953.
criticism
In 1953, Der Spiegel found that the film was “a mildly tired holiday romance from World War II, which after the peace treaty turned into an Italian gangster story without gaining pace.” The magazine described the relationship between Herbert-Nora-Hans as a " Marlitt triangle".
The lexicon of the international film called Rote Rosen, Rote Lippe, Rote Wein a "film novel with many subplots, ending with the joy of seeing you again and the happiness of love, mixed with some coincidences and cinema effects [...] German post-war entertainment."
Web links
- Red roses, red lips, red wine in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Red roses, red lips, red wine at filmportal.de