Trauma (1972)

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Movie
German title trauma
Original title Trauma, Una secretaria para matar, Touch me not (international title)
Country of production Germany , France , Spain
original language German
Publishing year 1972
length 74 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
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Director Karl Heinz Zeitler
script Julio Salvador, Richard Ferrer-Bosch
production Norman Leigh
music François de Roubaix
camera Bob Sticky
cut Howie white bread
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Trauma is a thriller by the author Karl Heinz Zeitler , otherwise known for his adventure and crime stories , which has been shown under various titles, including The Conscience and Chase at Midnight . Trauma is the original title, which can be read in the opening credits and is also referred to several times by text overlays during the opening credits.

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One day Eleanor receives a visit from Cory, who greets her from her brother. She has no idea that he is up to evil and so she takes him home. In truth, Cory takes the opportunity to spy on Eleanor. First of all, it's about industrial espionage, but soon it's about more. Eleanor holds a secret: she experienced hell on her wedding night. A best man raped her, her husband did not react and was killed by her in an affect. Now the shy woman seems to have fallen for a trustworthy man again. When she finds out what game he's playing, it's too late. She is trapped with him at night on the 25th floor of her office building, witnesses a murder and has to flee from him. Fearful, she spends a few hours in the dark building, always afraid of being discovered and killed by Cory. But finally she can get out of the situation, but again kills her opponent in battle.

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The film starts with some text panels. It reads: “Sex has become free, very free in fact. It's good. That is bad ”and further:“ Bad when thoughtlessness or a lack of sexual morality bring people into sexual compulsive situations ”, finally:“ That is, situations that have a shocking effect. Situations that trigger a shock that the affected person can suffer from for the rest of their lives. ”Then comes the opening credits. "Lee Remick and Michael Hinz in" - "Trauma". Finally, the note: "'Trauma' is a film for women that men should watch because they are to blame for this story".

The flashbacks are all captured on negative film and colored bluish. The production company was Monika-Film KG Berlin in association with Orbita-Films, Barcelona and Maya-Films, Paris , the entire film was shot in Barcelona. Director Karl-Heinz Zeitler appeared in the foreign versions as Douglas Fithian in the opening credits. The film was first shown on September 3, 1997 on RTL 2 and was released on video in the 1980s. 1974 is erroneously listed as the production year in the Internet Movie Database, as the film first premiered in Spain that year.

Movie title

The original film title is "Trauma", later titles were "Chase at Midnight" and "Conscience". The Spanish title is "Una secretaria para matar", an alternative to the English title was "The Hunted".

Others

A microphone can be seen at the top of the picture several times in different scenes. The plot of the last half hour is very reminiscent of the later episode Mord im Hochhaus ( I'm The Girl He Wants to Kill in the original title) from the TV series Thriller by Brian Clemens . The author of this episode may have been inspired by the film Trauma , especially since he repeatedly used well-known film subjects for the scripts for his series.

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