Directed by:
Kurt MaetzigCinematography:
Erwin AndersCast:
Erna Sellmer, Günther Simon, Jean Brahn, Fred Delmare, Manfred Krug, Katharina Matz, Eva-Maria Hagen, Manfred Borges, Agnes Kraus, Alexander Papendiek (more)Plots(1)
On January 25th, 2011, Kurt Maetzig, post World War II German film pioneer and co-founder of the DEFA, celebrated his 100th birthday. One of the most beautiful of his more than 20 films is VERGESST MIR MEINE TRAUDEL NICHT, filmed at the Babelsberg Studios in 1957.
Inspired by the comedies of Italian Neorealism, Maetzig offers a portrait of a 17 year old orphan girl that escapes from the orphanage and dives into the turmoil of Berlin. Two young men, a teacher and a police officer, compete for the affection of a woman who is as naive as she is smart, as dishonest as she is innocent. She leads the two men into situations they can only escape with wits and trickery. It is revealed that Traudel's mother was killed in a concentration camp for being unwilling to renounce her love to Czech slave labourer.
„It was not the cheap business as usual", critic Winfried Junge wrote in 1957, "but a pleasant combination of experience, ingenuity and the will to experiment. The scale of emotions is wide and goes from lighthearted laughter to pity and deep reflectiveness". Eva-Maria Hagen gives her debut in the title role with her dress allowed to move in the wind of Alexander Square like Marilyn Monroe's did in THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH. Talk with the director after the screening.
(Berlinale)
Cast
Erna Sellmer
German Empire
Best movies:
Murderers Among Us (1946)
Great Freedom No. 7 (1944)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Günther Simon
German Empire
Best movies:
The Black Battalion (1958)
First Spaceship on Venus (1959)
Jean Brahn
German Empire
Best movies:
The Story of Little Mook (1953)
Berlin - Ecke Schönhauser (1957)
Fred Delmare
German Empire
Best movies:
Das Buschgespenst (1986) (TV movie)
I Survived Certain Death (1960)
Der Lange Ritt zur Schule (1982)
Manfred Krug
German Empire
Best movies:
The Boxer and Death (1962)
Professor Mamlock (1961)
La Trace des pierres (1966)
Katharina Matz
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Who Am I - No System Is Safe (2014)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Rosamunde Pilcher (1993) (series)
Eva-Maria Hagen
German Empire
Best movies:
Herzlich willkommen (1990)
Itinerary of a Spoiled Child (1988)
Lore (2012)
Manfred Borges
German Empire
Best movies:
Berlin - Ecke Schönhauser (1957)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Agnes Kraus
German Empire
Best movies:
Professor Mamlock (1961)
Der geteilte Himmel (1964)
Aber Doktor (1979) (TV movie)
Alexander Papendiek
German Empire
Best movies:
The Story of Little Mook (1953)
Five Cartridges (1960)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Nico Turoff
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Les Misérables (1958)
The Devious Path (1928)
The Story of Little Mook (1953)
Egon Vogel
German Empire
Best movies:
Der Zauberberg (1982)
The Punch Bowl (1944)
Die Halbstarken (1956)
Kurt Rackelmann
German Empire
Best movies:
Tatort (1970) (series)
First Spaceship on Venus (1959)
Sabine Thalbach
German Empire
Best movies:
The Crucible (1957)
Man of Straw (1951)
Günther Haack
German Empire
Martin Rosen
German Empire
Erich Fritze
German Empire
Best movies: