Venusberg (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Venusberg |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1963 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rolf Thiele |
| script | Rolf Thiele |
| production | Franz Seitz |
| music | Rolf A. Wilhelm |
| camera | Wolf Wirth |
| cut | Ingeborg Taschner |
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Venusberg is a German feature film from 1963 directed by Rolf Thiele with an all-female cast led by Marisa Mell .
action
Seven very different women accept the invitation of the gynecologist Alphonse to his holiday home, which is located high on a snow-covered hill. Each of them had or still has a relationship with him, but the man who is in the center of attention remains absent himself. The current lover Ruth, who had received from him the promise to get a divorce because of her, is waiting for the doctor as is Pony, the long-term friend who has been engaged for four years with no prospect of marriage. Also there is the lesbian medical student Vera and her friend Christine as well as Inge, who is three months pregnant. The model Lola from Paris is ready to marry the highest bidder, and not to forget Florentine, who takes nothing too seriously, who leaves the scene as the “winner” for the favor of the non-appearing host.
In the almost narrative-free story, the women, mostly poorly, sometimes not at all dressed and tossing around in their beds, begin an inter-feminine dialogue that, at times emblazoned philosophically, predominantly touches on the areas of sexuality, love and men. An act of beheading taps, which the girls gutted and whose legs they play with, is symbolic. In the villa's own swimming pool, where the young women hang out in only the bare essentials, the thematic range extends from pregnancy interruptions to Simone de Beauvoir and Gottfried Benn , from whose erotic passages Vera recites. As a man sneaks around the house and draws attention to himself, one of the girls lets in, who eventually has sex with him, while the other six ladies are listening intently from the next room. At the end of this meaningful rendezvous, Ruth will come to the realization that her “dream prince” is not the right one and will voluntarily renounce a future and a marriage with Alphonse. Then one of the women leaves after the other.
Production notes
Venusberg was created between December 5, 1962 and January 25, 1963 in a villa in Deining near Munich. The film passed the FSK exam on April 8, 1963 and was subject to numerous editing requirements - including 20 text passages and one image sequence. The premiere took place on April 26, 1963.
Seitz brother Hans Terofal was in charge of production; there were no film structures. Petrus Schloemp served as assistant to head cameraman Wolf Wirth . Rolf Thiele gave the only man who appears like a shadow in the story his own voice.
Reviews
“With the help of his cameraman Wolf Wirth, Thiele made a remarkable effort in terms of optics and composition in order to bring down the searing“ Venusberg ”with the little mouse nudity. So far, pretty and purposeful. But what comes to light in addition to these bare facts in the form of a dialogical tumor, Thiele reveals as a paper tiger that has not been able to cope with its artificial teeth. Seven young women from foreign countries were called up as volunteers to portray attractive women. Only with the help of the printed program can one clarify the question, which is unimportant here: Who is who? "
“A modern women's mirror, the minus of which is the mere portrayal of characters and the lack of opportunities for development for the mostly only sexi-decorative actors. As a plus: the (but erotically pointed) dialogue, elegant setting and its, as well as those involved, dazzling photographic interpretation. "
“The almost nonsensical film tries to reveal the woman's 'real self' in the de-conventionalized situation of same-sex loneliness. He makes use of a fashionable and obnoxious dialogue and visual language. His result is the equation of the feminine with sensual desire. "
literature
- Subject woman . In: Der Spiegel . No. 17 , 1963 ( online ).
- You don't give a damn about the man . In: Die Zeit , No. 11/1963; Filming report Venusberg
Web links
- Oliver Nöding: Venusberg at the 11th Hofbauer Congress
- Venusberg in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Venusberg at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Topic woman . In: Der Spiegel . No. 17 , 1963 ( online ).
- ↑ Rolf Thiele's “Venusberg”. In: Abendblatt.de. Hamburger Abendblatt , April 27, 1963, accessed on May 27, 2018 .
- ^ Venusberg in Paimann's film lists
- ^ Films 1962-64. Handbook VII of the Catholic film criticism . Düsseldorf 1965, p. 182.
