Seventeen - four girls make a man

Movie
German title	Seventeen - four girls make a man
Original title	Sytten
Country of production	Denmark
original language	Danish
Publishing year	1965
length	81 minutes
Age rating	FSK 18
Rod
Director	Annelise Meineche
script	Bob Ramsing based on the novella “Sytten” by Carl Erik Martin Soya
production	Jens Ravn
music	Ole Høyer
camera	Ole Lytken
cut	Edith Keys
occupation
Ole Søltoft : Jacob Latour Petersen Ghita Nørby : Vibeke, his cousin Emil Hass Christensen : Professor Petersen Ole Monty : Jacob's uncle Bodil Steen : Jacob's aunt Lily Broberg : Mrs. Rosegod Arthur Jensen : train conductor Henry Nielsen : station master Annie Birgit Garde : Girls on the train Susanne Heinrich : Hansigne Ingolf David : Pharmacist Jørgen Kiil : Dr. Mogensen Hugo Herrestrup : Knut Jytte Abildstrøm : Mrs. Steinkopf Valsø Holm Jens Jensen Lise Rosendahl

Seventeen - Four Girls Make a Man (original title: Sytten ) is a Danish feature film by Annelise Meineche from 1965. The screenplay is by Bob Ramsing . It is based on the 1953 novel Sytten by the Danish writer Carl Erik Martin Soya . The leading roles are cast with Ole Søltoft , Ghita Nørby and Lily Broberg . In Denmark, the film first came out on September 6, 1965; in Germany it had its premiere on June 10, 1966.

action

Summer 1913 in Copenhagen. Jacob is a 17 year old high school student struggling with puberty. Shy by nature, he doesn't know what to do with the awakening sexual drive. So a holiday in a small town comes in handy for him - as he is called to. And Jacob Latour Petersen “gets to know love”. The first to see the inhibited youth, suddenly inspired by a mysterious daring, get into bed is cousin Vibeke. The next the maid, the next but one the housekeeper, the fourth who gives himself up to him, a traveler on the train returning home. But there the other servant female spirit is already waiting.

criticism

The lexicon of the international film draws the following conclusion: Betulich-boring «Comedy» from Denmark, which lacks humor and irony. The evangelical film observer has an even worse opinion of the film : This Danish comedy [...] is a penetrating life lie, since it claims that a young man becomes a 'man' solely by satisfying his sexual drive. This is exemplified by a 17-year-old who went on vacation from Copenhagen to a small town in 1913. Sharply refuse.

Web links

• Seventeen - The Girls make a man in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Sytten at Det Danske Filminstitut (Danish)
• Sytten in the Dansk Film Database (Danish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Source: Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 305/1966,
   pp. 571 to 572
2. ↑ Lexicon of International Films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 3462