St. Pauli between night and morning
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | St. Pauli between night and morning |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1967 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | José Bénazéraf |
| script | Wolfgang Steinhardt |
| production | Erwin C. Dietrich |
| music | Frank Valdor |
| camera |
Peter Baumgartner George Balogh |
| cut | Eva Zeyn |
| occupation | |
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St. Pauli between Night and Morning is a German crime, trash and exploitation film from 1967.
action
Hamburg-Mitte in the 1960s. In the St. Pauli district, the French dancer Arlette appears in a nightclub, but refuses to do the striptease dance to her boss Bernie, a rather bad guy. Bernie also uses brutal methods to bring Arlette down. His henchmen grab the petite, pretty girl and drug her with a shot of heroin to break Arlette's will. The young woman is not only drunk, but also completely dissolved and desperate when she walks helplessly through Hamburg's streets in this state and falls into the arms of a certain Helmut Schmidt. He is Swiss and takes care of you. Schmidt spends the next day and the following night with her. Freshly in love, the two separate in the morning hours. Arlette has regained courage and believes in getting her life back under control.
Little does she know that Helmut works for Interpol in the drug search and is currently in the service of the Hamburg police. After meeting Arlette, Schmidt is certain that Bernie's nightclub is a hub for hard drugs and therefore plans to infiltrate there via Arlette. Easier said than done, because Bernie is very suspicious, especially since he is also beginning to lose control of Arlette. In order to gain the trust of Bernie and his buddies, Schmidt is even willing to take part in a robbery. During this foray into a transporter with wages, Schmidt shoots one of his accomplices in self-defense. Now he becomes the hunted of the gang, and with him Arlette too. With the looted money, Helmut wants to flee abroad with Arlette, but the police have already cordoned off the city center. Finally there is a direct confrontation with the police colleagues, whereby Schmidt is defeated and dies.
production
This film was made two years before the real wave of St. Pauli films - mostly with Curd Jürgens in the leading role - started rolling. Between 1961 and 1971, over twenty films were made about the St. Pauli district , which took on its nimbus as a den of sin.
With José Bénazéraf, who is considered an erotic provocateur, producer Erwin C. Dietrich hired a director who seemed to meet expectations. He agreed with him that his work would only be compensated by granting the exploitation rights in France. Eva Ebner assisted the French director.
St. Pauli between Night and Morning was created on the streets of Hamburg at the end of 1966 and was premiered on April 13, 1967. The film started badly in West German cinemas. Measured against the hopes that Dietrich had placed in Bénazéraf, the finished film turned out to be too good and brought the newly founded company Avis a loss.
criticism
In the lexicon of the international film it says: “German B-picture from the 1960s, whose narrow plot consists of the love story of a prostitute and the attack on a money transport.” Even the evangelical film observer does not believe in the film : “This film [... ] is meaningful, but is pure colportage and not worth a penny. "
literature
- Benedikt Eppenberger, Daniel Stapfer: Girls, Machos and Monets - The incredible story of the Swiss cinema entrepreneur Erwin C. Dietrich . Verlag Scharfe Stiefel, Zurich 2006, ISBN 3-033-00960-3 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ St. Pauli between night and morning. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 31, 2015 .
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 194/1967.