Blondes for Export

Blondes for Export
Directed byEugen York
Written byNorbert Jacques (novel)
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyOskar Schnirch
Edited byWalter Fredersdorf
Music byWolfgang Zeller
Production
company
Standard-Filmverleih
Distributed byLloyd Film
Release date
  • 10 April 1950 (1950-04-10)
Running time
81 minutes
CountryWest Germany
LanguageGerman

Blondes for Export (German: Export in Blond) is a 1950 West German crime thriller film directed by Eugen York and starring Lotte Koch, Catja Görna and René Deltgen. Norbert Jacques wrote the screenplay, adapting his own novel.[1][2] It was shot at the Göttingen Studios and on location around Hamburg. The film's sets were designed by the art director Hans Ledersteger and Ernst Richter.

Plot

In Hamburg during the late 1940s, a blonde young girl is kidnapped by human traffickers and taken to South America.

Cast

Production

The film is the second adaptation of the Luxembourgish 1927 novel Plüsch und Plümowski by Norbert Jacques,[3] the first being the 1927 film The Bordello in Rio.[4][5]

Reception

A retrospective commentary from the Lexikon des internationalen Filmen finds the "theme (of human trafficking) treated in an unrealistic and cheap sensationalistic way."[6]

See also

White slavery was the subject of various films, including the following:

References

  1. ^ Elsaesser & Wedel p.142
  2. ^ "NJ-Bibliographie Nachträge". www.sulb.uni-saarland.de. Retrieved 2023-04-17.
  3. ^ "Luxemburger Autorenlexikon". Luxemburger Autorenlexikon (in German). Retrieved 2023-04-17.
  4. ^ WEIDNER, CAROLIN (2014-04-30). "Ein Potpourri der Stereotype". Die Tageszeitung: taz (in German). p. 05. ISSN 0931-9085. Retrieved 2023-04-17.
  5. ^ Alanen, Antti (2014-10-05). "Antti Alanen: Film Diary: Das Frauenhaus von Rio / Girls for Sale. Rio's Road to Hell". Antti Alanen. Retrieved 2023-04-17.
  6. ^ "Export in Blond". www.filmdienst.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-04-17."

Bibliography

  • Hans-Michael Bock and Tim Bergfelder. The Concise Cinegraph: An Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
  • Thomas Elsaesser & Michael Wedel. The BFI companion to German cinema. British Film Institute, 1999.


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