The landlady of the Lahn
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| German title | The landlady of the Lahn |
| Original title | Susanne - the landlady of the Lahn |
| Country of production | Austria , Hungary , Italy |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1967 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 (today 16) |
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| Director | Franz Antel |
| script | Kurt Nachmann |
| production | Neue Delta Filmproduktion, Vienna ( Carl Szokoll ); Hungaro Mafilm, Budapest ( Kurt Kodal ); Aico film, Rome |
| music |
Gianni Ferrio Johannes Fehring |
| camera | Siegfried Hold |
| cut | Enzo Micarelli |
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Susanne - die Wirtin von der Lahn , in Germany just called Die Wirtin von der Lahn , is an erotic comedy filmed by Franz Antel in Hungary in 1967 based on the verses about the Wirtshaus an der Lahn . It was released in cinemas on December 22, 1967 by Constantin Film .
action
In the Kingdom of Westphalia at the time of Napoleon, a drunken old woman bequeathed her inn to the actress Susanne shortly before her death so as not to leave it to her rival Goppelmann. Susanne actually moves into the pub with her acting troupe. The cheated Goppelmann, however, brings the inn into disrepute, and innkeeper's verses and songs of mockery about the landlady von der Lahn are soon circulating everywhere .
Mainly students present the offensive texts. But then the real landlady Susanne manages to get the students and their leader Anselmo to their side by enabling them to secretly print propaganda against the French occupying forces in the pub. Her colleague Ferdinand, who joined the army, also works with her as a reliable informant.
That is also necessary because a commission is investigating the secret printing press on behalf of the governor von Gießen. In the tavern she only finds adorable girls. Now even the governor is convinced that the inn only accommodates willing servants (and their visitors). He appears in person to get his money's worth. He can only free himself from the embarrassing situation he gets into by renouncing the execution of Anselmo, who has been sentenced to death.
background
Producer and director Franz Antel had the idea to shoot a comedy about the genesis of the Wirtinnenverses and the Wirtshaus an der Lahn. However, his Hungarian film partner made it a condition that the Hungarian actress Terry Torday play the lead role originally intended for Mylène Demongeot .
The title music is a lively waltz by Gianni Ferrio, next to it, like a red thread, the rather suggestive landlady verses set to music by Johannes Fehring run through the film. In comparison, the game scenes are cautious and defused by voluntary self-censorship by repeatedly showing a humorous reference to the “morals commission”.
The film was one of the most successful of 1968 and captured a gold screen . In Italy the film grossed the unusual sum of 600 million lire in the first 180 days. The resulting series of hostess films had a total of six episodes.
Reviews
- “Spasmodic effort to make the dubious reputation of the Lahn landlady usable for film entertainment. Mindless people are flirted with immorality; a dull and stupid film. " (film review)
- "Clothes. (...) disappointing even for those who want to check their knowledge of the "landlady verses", they are only quoted mutilated. "(Rating: 1 star = weak) - Adolf Heinzlmeier and Berndt Schulz in Lexicon" Films on TV " (extended new edition) . Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , pp. 792-793
- “An Antel comedy of easy speculation enriched with singsong and landscape romance: when the second verse of a landlady's rhyme comes up, the sound is simply faded out; When the “foreplay” is over, the bed scenes freeze into a still photo, and an insert explains: “Morals Commission”. - Grandpa's cinema in underpants. " ( Lexicon of international film , rororo-Taschenbuch Nr. 6322, 1988, p. 4338)
- "Witty entertainment film in the style of the old days: clumsy and unimaginative." ( Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Review No. 43/1968, p. 43)
literature
- Franz Antel : Twisted, in love, my life . Amalthea-Verlag, Vienna and Munich 2001, ISBN 3-85002-464-4 , pp. 175-179: The landlady of the Lahn