Toxi

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Movie
Original title Toxi
Country of production Federal Republic of Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1952
length 79 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Robert Adolf Stemmle
script Peter Francke ,
Robert Adolf Stemmle,
Maria von der Osten-Sacken
production Werner Ludwig ,
Hermann Schwerin
music Michael Jary
camera Igor Oberberg
cut Alice Ludwig
occupation

Toxi is a German film from 1952 by Robert Adolf Stemmle , which for the first time took up the situation of the mixed-race children ( brown babies ) conceived by colored occupation soldiers with German women in a melodramatic form.

action

Toxi is a five-year-old occupation child. The mother died and the father returned to the United States. The completely abandoned child appears in Hamburg and is taken in by the Rose family. Although some members of the family have reservations, the cute girl eventually wins everyone's hearts. As a happy ending, the dark-skinned father appears on Christmas Eve and takes Toxi to the United States, which solves all problems.

production

The film, a production by Fono-Film GmbH, Munich-Hamburg, was shot in the Real-Film studios in Hamburg-Wandsbek with external shots of Hamburg and the surrounding area. It premiered on August 15, 1952 in Frankfurt am Main .

Others

Elfie Fiegert is not announced in the opening credits under her real name, but under her role name "Toxi".

Awards

Reviews

“Light German entertainment film, which sees the black occupation child Toxi as more of a sensation than a problem and is limited to a pink film solution for wonderful scenes from children. Slight reservations for children because of some superfluous scenes. "

- film-dienst No. 1949, 5th year, 32/1952

“Anyone who went to the screening of this Fono film with a certain amount of suspicion left it completely changed and enthusiastic. The audience was also very impressed by Toxi and her fate. "

- Film-Echo , 23 August 1952

“The German film 'Toxi', which tells the story of the mulatto child from Munich, who, abandoned by his black father and white mother, grows up in a foreign family, is by no means a thorough treatise on racial problems, but rather aims to show it in a completely harmless way that everything is very easy when 'common sense' and the 'voice of the heart' prevail. In any case, this film can also help dispel prejudices and arouse sympathy for the innocent colored children of the occupation. "

- Die Zeit , August 14, 1952

literature

  • A. Brauerhoch: "Mohrenkopf". Black child and white post-war society in TOXI. In: Frauen und Film, Heft 60 (1997), pp. 106-130

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Dr. Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , p. 297
  2. ^ "Splendid conclusion to the Berlin Film Festival" in Pforzheimer Zeitung of June 30, 1953, p. 5