The Simple Girl
1957 film
- Curth Flatow
- Eckart Hachfeld [de]
- Caterina Valente
- Rudolf Prack
- Ruth Stephan
Production
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CCC Film
Release date
- 23 August 1957 (1957-08-23)
Running time
The Simple Girl (German: Das einfache Mädchen) is a 1957 West German musical comedy film directed by Werner Jacobs and produced by Artur Brauner. It starred Caterina Valente, Rudolf Prack and Ruth Stephan.[1]
Production
The film was directed by German director Werner Jacobs and produced by Artur Brauner. It is based on an idea by Curth Flatow who also wrote the screenplay, together with Eckart Hachfeld [de].[1] The working title was Bravo, Caterina. Horst Wendlandt was line producer and Brauner's wife, Maria, was in charge of costume design.[1] Filming took place in May 1957 at the Spandau Studios in Berlin.[1] The film's sets were designed by the art directors Emil Hasler and Paul Markwitz.
The film premiered on 23 August 1957 at the Thalia in Wiesbaden.[1]
Plot
Caterina Bastiani, a talented young actress, is offered the leading role in a musical. This is her big break but the author of the novel on which the musical is based is less than pleased about this adaption — and he does not think much of Caterina. Caterina meets a girl by accident who has applied to work for the author as a maid. She takes the girl's place in order to prove her talent as an actress and shows up at the author's home as the new maid herself.[1]
Cast
- Caterina Valente as Caterina Bastiani
- Rudolf Prack as Thomas Krauss
- Ruth Stephan as Milli
- Rudolf Platte as Werner Pätzold
- Dorit Kreysler as Mrs. Seidel
- Helen Vita as Eva Krapke
- Peter W. Staub as Pit
- Stefan Haar as Jürgen Krauss
- Richard Allan as Robert Holden
- Hans Olden as Anton Schwarz
- Franz-Otto Krüger as Regisseur
- Henry Lorenzen as Komponist Heino Kies
- Herbert Weißbach as Baron Westhoff[1]
- Edith Adana as Baronin Westhoff
References
- ^ a b c d e f g "Filmportal: Das einfache Mädchen". Retrieved 31 March 2013.
Bibliography
- Hans-Michael Bock and Tim Bergfelder. The Concise Cinegraph: An Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
External links
- The Simple Girl at IMDb
- Artur-Brauner-Archive at the Deutsches Filmmuseum in Frankfurt (German), containing the production files for this movie
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Films directed by Werner Jacobs
- The Blue and White Lion (1952)
- Street Serenade (1953)
- Guitars of Love (1954)
- André and Ursula (1955)
- Santa Lucia (1956)
- San Salvatore (1956)
- The Beggar Student (1956)
- The Simple Girl (1957)
- The Count of Luxemburg (1957)
- Munchhausen in Africa (1958)
- The Star of Santa Clara (1958)
- Here I Am, Here I Stay (1959)
- A Summer You Will Never Forget (1959)
- Conny and Peter Make Music (1960)
- The White Horse Inn (1960)
- Mariandl (1961)
- Drei Liebesbriefe aus Tirol (1962)
- Freddy and the Song of the South Pacific (1962)
- Mariandl's Homecoming (1962)
- The Merry Widow (1962)
- The Model Boy (1963)
- Homesick for St. Pauli (1963)
- ...denn die Musik und die Liebe in Tirol (1963)
- Help, My Bride Steals (1964)
- In Bed by Eight (1965)
- Heidi (1965)
- Aunt Frieda (1965)
- The Sinful Village (1966)
- Onkel Filser (1966)
- Murderers Club of Brooklyn (1967)
- When Ludwig Goes on Manoeuvres (1967)
- The Heathens of Kummerow (1967)
- Zur Hölle mit den Paukern (1968)
- Zum Teufel mit der Penne (1968)
- Charley's Uncle (1969)
- Heintje: A Heart Goes on a Journey (1969)
- Hurra, die Schule brennt! (1969)
- What Is the Matter with Willi? (1970)
- Heintje - Mein bester Freund (1970)
- Twenty Girls and the Teachers (1971)
- Morgen fällt die Schule aus (1971)
- Our Willi Is the Best (1971)
- Willi Manages the Whole Thing (1972)
- My Daughter, Your Daughter (1972)
- Old Barge, Young Love (1973)
- The Flying Classroom (1973)
- Schwarzwaldfahrt aus Liebeskummer (1974)
- Auch ich war nur ein mittelmäßiger Schüler(1974)
- Zwei himmlische Dickschädel (1974)
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