Don't send your wife to Italy

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Movie
Original title Don't send your wife to Italy
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1960
length 101 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
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Director Hans Grimm
script Ilse Lotz-Dupont
production Franz Seitz
music Rolf A. Wilhelm
camera Heinz Schnackertz
cut Herbert Taschner
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Don't send your wife to Italy is a German comedy film directed by Hans Grimm from 1960.

action

Lawyer Martin Wiebold admires the beautiful pediatrician Dr. Sabine Reimer. At the evening rendezvous, he makes it clear to her that he is interested in a relationship, but not in marriage. Disappointed, Sabine decides to go on her planned vacation in Italy alone. The newly married Elisabeth, known as Lizzie, has trouble with her husband Robert, who works as a fashion photographer and prefers to spend the evening with one of his mannequins instead of having dinner together on the occasion of the first three months of marriage. Lizzie jealously leaves Robert and takes solace from her friend Sabine. The housewife and mother of two Manuela Beetz also appears here, who has had enough of always having to take care of the household on her own, while her husband Karl always nags about everything. All three women decide to go to Italy together and leave the men alone with the household.

For Karl, the absence of his wife soon turns into a catastrophe, as he has to take care of the household and the two children - the young Jokki and the baby Pusselchen - because the annoyed housekeeper Tete has also given him notice. That Robert wants to help him with the household doesn't make things any better. Only Martin sees it easily and goes to Italy alone. Here the women have now made the acquaintance of the cyclist Brunelli and his friend Costa, a singer. Sabine borrows Manuela's wedding ring to keep Brunelli at a distance. Manuela, on the other hand, enjoys being swarmed around by Costa as a supposedly unmarried woman. Only Lizzie longs for her Robert and tries again and again to contact him, which they try to prevent the other two women from doing. When she calls him once from Siena, Robert now knows where the women are and the next day he drives to Italy with Karl, Jokki and Pusselchen. The search continues for Rome and Portofino, where the couples meet again. Brunelli believes that Martin is Sabine's husband and is amazed at how little Martin Sabine shows his love. He asks Martin to divorce Sabine, but he has long since realized that he really wants to marry Sabine and give her all the freedom in marriage, so she shouldn't give up her job for him. Brunelli turns out to be a fair loser. There is also reconciliation between the other two couples. Lizzie realizes she's jealous of Robert for nothing, while Karl finally learns how hard it is to run a household. Since Manuela has to realize in the end that the supposed bachelor Costa is actually married and a philanderer, she is also happy to have remained loyal to Karl. All couples finally begin their journey home.

production

Don't send your wife to Italy was shot in the Bavaria Filmstudios near Munich and in various Italian cities. The film had its premiere on September 22nd, 1960 in the Kaskade in Kassel.

Various songs can be heard in the film:

criticism

For the film service , Schick Ihr Frau was not to Italy a "silly comedy about marital fidelity and divorce, photographed in the style of a tourist brochure and enriched with slutty hits."

Cinema asked “Three courageous champions of the women's movement who show their machos what the heck? But not! It doesn't take five hits, then the fräuleins return home to the stove, which the lords of creation have meanwhile totally messed up. Conclusion: bland jokes, tired story and dry dialogues ”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Don't send your wife to Italy. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ See cinema.de