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Blondes for Export

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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 Germancrimethriller filmdirected byEugen Yorkand starringLotte Koch,Catja GörnaandRené Deltgen.Norbert Jacqueswrote the screenplay, adapting his own novel.[1][2]It was shot at theGöttingen Studiosandon locationaroundHamburg.The film's sets were designed by theart directorHans LederstegerandErnst Richter.

Plot

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

Cast

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Production

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The film is the second adaptation of the Luxembourgish 1927 novelPlüsch und PlümowskibyNorbert Jacques,[3]the first being the 1927 filmThe Bordello in Rio.[4][5]

Reception

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

See also

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

References

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  1. ^Elsaesser & Wedel p.142
  2. ^"NJ-Bibliographie Nachträge".www.sulb.uni-saarland.de.Retrieved2023-04-17.
  3. ^"Luxemburger Autorenlexikon".Luxemburger Autorenlexikon(in German).Retrieved2023-04-17.
  4. ^WEIDNER, CAROLIN (2014-04-30)."Ein Potpourri der Stereotype".Die Tageszeitung: taz(in German). p. 05.ISSN0931-9085.Retrieved2023-04-17.
  5. ^Alanen, Antti (2014-10-05)."Antti Alanen: Film Diary: Das Frauenhaus von Rio / Girls for Sale. Rio's Road to Hell".Antti Alanen.Retrieved2023-04-17.
  6. ^"Export in Blond".www.filmdienst.de(in German).Retrieved2023-04-17."

Bibliography

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  • 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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