Our wonderland at night
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Our wonderland at night |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1959 |
| length | 80, 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Jürgen Roland Reinhard Elsner Hans Heinrich |
| script |
Wolfgang Quantity Reinhard Elsner Gustav Lehmann Ernst Hasselbach based on a “factual report” by Stefan Roon that appeared in Münchner Illustrierte |
| production | Fritz Anton |
| music |
Willy Mattes Klaus Günter Neumann |
| camera |
Bruno Mondi Herbert Geier |
| cut | Liselotte Schumacher |
| occupation | |
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First episode Hamburg
Second episode Munich
Third episode Düsseldorf
In other roles:
and also Liesl Tirsch , Florentine von Castell , Irmgard Kleber , Maria Krasna , Rainer Brandt , Horst Naumann , Bruno W. Pantel , Herbert Wilk , Harald Sawade | |
Our Wonderland at Night is an episode film made in 1959 and set in three German cities by the two up- and- coming directors Jürgen Roland and Reinhard Elsner and the movie veteran Hans Heinrich .
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In three short, melodramatic episodes, the film shows highlights from the night and semi-world life of three major German cities in the late 1950s.
At the center of the first episode, which takes place in Hamburg, are the activities around Hauptwachtmeister Siegel, a plump man in his “prime” who has to deal with many a problematic case in his police station, the famous Davidswache on St. Pauli . Whether prostitution, brawls, theft, a daughter who is addicted to motherhood or the fatal consequences of marital disputes, Siegel and his colleagues face all challenges. In Munich, the adolescent Helga Barufka threatens to get on the wrong track due to the temptations of nightlife. In Düsseldorf, on the other hand, an escort lady by the name of “Fräulein Doktor” proves to be extremely clever. On behalf of her boss General Director Schreiber, she is supposed to "look after" several high-ranking people such as Senator Ravella, but instead of fulfilling her mandate, she unceremoniously disconnects her boss's customers and leads them to the competition. So she can cash in twice.
Production notes
Our Wunderland at Night was created on April 21, 1959 in the three locations of Hamburg, Düsseldorf and Munich and was shown in German and Austrian cinemas on August 14, 1959. There the strip ran under the slightly different title Economic Wonderland at Night .
This highly speculative film, filled with plenty of striptease scenes, about prostitution and demi-world in the still young, metropolitan Federal Republic was a direct reaction to the enormous box-office success Das Mädchen Rosemarie and was therefore sometimes advertised with the subtitle “Die kleine Nitribitts”.
The veteran actor Charlott Daudert completed her last film role here, as did Nina von Porembsky , who died young at the time and was only 20 years old , who embodies her daughter here at the side of her mother Alexa von Porembsky (as a prostitute). The 23-year-old Rainer Brandt made his movie debut here.
The famous trumpet solo in this film comes from Bert Kaempfert and was composed by Klaus Günter Neumann .
Reviews
“The successes of“ Wir Wunderkinder ”and“ Das Mädchen Rosemarie ”may have led to this blatantly amateurish attempt to portray the dark sides of the economic miracle with an ironically critical camera. Three young arrangers - Reinhard Elsner, Hans Heinrich and Jürgen Roland ("Stahlnetz"), who was borrowed from television, each contributed a portrayal of Munich, Düsseldorf and Hamburg that was considered typical, the copywriters of the distributor contributed the headline "Die kleine Nitribitts" . What came about is not a satire in three acts, but a triptych of cinematic ignorance that could not be held together even by the moral index finger of the undaunted chansonnier Klaus Günter Neumann. "
“Rosemary's adventures continue to rise. This time whole columns of these girls are trying to get across the screen. Three directors (Jürgen Roland, Reinhard Eisner and Hans Heinrich) tell the dark side of our time in three episodes from three German wonder cities. A sex-only trip from Hamburg via Munich to Düsseldorf. In the process, half-world wisdoms are diligently quoted in street jargon and serious topics are glossed over by playing on words in interludes by Klaus Günter Neumann and Werner Hartnik. The script was less concerned with the truth than with gaudy effects: A show of sensuality that ultimately you don't know what to do with. "
"Three episodes from the shadow zones of the German economic miracle: brutality and sentimentality at the Hamburg Davidswache (1st" Episode Hamburg "), two young women from a good home in the Munich youthful milieu (2nd" Episode Munich "), corrupt business people in bed with Düsseldorf call girls (3rd "Episode Düsseldorf"). During a striptease one of the ladies "blinds" the camera while a commentary voice jokes about the FSK. The attempt to polemically oppose the harmless German entertainment cinema of those years with some "realistic" scenes is no less staid and infantile than the "ideal world" that one wants to unmask. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Der Spiegel , No. 36, of September 2, 1959
- ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt, August 15, 1959
- ↑ Our Wonderland at Night in the Lexicon of International Films
Web links
- Our Wonderland at night in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Our wonderland at night at filmportal.de