''Blondes for Export'' () is a 1950 West German

crime In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a State (polity), state or other authority. The term ''crime'' does not, in modern criminal law, have any simple and universally accepted definition,Farmer, Lindsay: "Crime, definiti ...

thriller film Thriller film, also known as suspense film or suspense thriller, is a broad film genre that evokes excitement and suspense in the audience. The suspense element found in most films' plots is particularly exploited by the filmmaker in this genre. ...

directed by

Eugen York Eugen York (26 November 1912 – 18 November 1991) was a German film director. He directed 35 films between 1938 and 1984. He was born in Rybinsk, Russian Empire and died in Berlin, Germany. After a career in Germany until the 1940s, he made ...

and starring

Lotte Koch Lotte Koch (9 March 1913 – 26 May 2013) was a Belgian-born German film actress. She emerged as a star during the Nazi era, appearing in the 1944 drama ''The Black Robe (film), The Black Robe''. Following the Second World War she appeared in seve ...

, Catja Görna and

René Deltgen Renatus Heinrich Deltgen (30 April 1909 in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg – 29 January 1979 in Cologne, West Germany) was a Luxembourgish stage and film actor An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who port ...

Norbert Jacques Norbert Jacques (6 June 1880 – 15 May 1954) was a Luxembourgish novelist, journalist, screenwriter, and translator who wrote in German. He was born in Luxembourg-Eich, Luxembourg and died in Koblenz, West Germany. He created the character Dr ...

wrote the screenplay, adapting his own novel. It was shot at the

Göttingen Studios The Göttingen Studios were film studios located in the German city of Göttingen.Noack p.307 The studios were established in 1948 on a site that had previously been used as an aeroplane hangar on the outskirts of Göttingen.Imhoof p.187 The stu ...

and on location around

Hamburg Hamburg (, ; ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,. is the List of cities in Germany by population, second-largest city in Germany after Berlin and List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, 7th-lar ...

. The film's sets were designed by the

art director Art director is a title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, live-action and animated film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supe ...

Hans Ledersteger Hans Ledersteger (1898–1971) was an Austrian art director who worked for many years in the German film industry. While mainly employed in Germany, he occasionally also worked in other countries such as Italy and his native Austria including on ...

and

Ernst Richter Ernst Friedrich Eduard Richter (24 October 18089 April 1879), was a German musical theorist and composer, born at Großschönau, Saxony. He first studied music at Zittau, and afterwards at Leipzig, where he attained so high a reputation that in ...

Plot

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

Cast

as Yvonne Moréen * Catja Görna as Iris Gorla *

as Frank Olman *

Albrecht Schoenhals Albrecht Moritz James Karl Schoenhals (7 March 1888 – 4 December 1978) was a German film actor. Life Born Moritz James Karl, Albrecht Schoenhals was the son of the German General upper physician Gustav Schoenhals (1855-1930) and an English ...

as Gorla * Peter van Eyck as Rolf Carste *

Ursula Grabley Ursula Grabley (8 December 1908 – 3 April 1977) was a German actress. She appeared in more than 80 films and television shows between 1929 and 1977. Her acting career started during the late Silent film, silent era and blossomed in the sou ...

as Emmi Kruschke *

Ursula Herking Ursula Herking (28 January 1912 – 17 November 1974) was a German film actress. She appeared in more than 130 films between 1933 and 1972. She was born in Dessau, Germany and died in Munich, West Germany. Selected filmography * '' Susanne ...

as Fräulein Lührs *

Änne Bruck Änne Bruck (23 August 1907 – 13 December 1978) was a German actress. She appeared in more than 45 films and television shows between 1936 and 1978. Biography Bruck began her acting career in films from 1936. She was on the Gottbegnadet ...

as Frau Hessling *

Carl-Heinz Schroth Carl-Heinz Schroth (29 June 1902 – 19 July 1989) was a German actor and film director. He appeared in 60 films between 1931 and 1989. He also directed seven films between 1953 and 1963. He was born in Innsbruck, Austria, to Else Ruttershei ...

as Roschek *

Albert Florath Albert Peter Adam Florath (7 December 1888, Bielefeld – 11 March 1957, Gaildorf) was a German stage and film actor. Early life and education Born to Joseph Florath, a locksmith, and his wife Matilda, née Burkart, he attended school in Brak ...

as Professor *

Hans Leibelt Hans Leibelt (11 March 1885 in Leipzig, German Empire – 3 December 1974 in Munich, West Germany) was a German film actor. Selected filmography * ''Heimliche Sünder'' (1926) * ''The False Prince (1927 film), The False Prince'' (1927) * ' ...

as Intendant Hallerstedt * Hans Richter as Artist Freddie *

Franz Schafheitlin Franz Schafheitlin (9 August 1895 – 6 February 1980) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 160 films between 1927 and 1974. He was born in Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany and died in Pullach, West Germany. Selected filmograph ...

as Polizeikommissar in Rio *

Josef Dahmen Josef Dahmen (21 August 1903 – 18 January 1985) was a German stage, film and television actor.Youngkin p. 462. Dahmen was married to the actress Gisela von Collande, with whom he had a daughter Andrea Dahmen. His granddaughter Julia Dahmen is ...

as Armand *

Peter Mosbacher Peter Mosbacher (1912–1977) was a German stage actor, stage, film actor, film and television actor.Goble p.252 Filmography References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. ...

as Alvaro *

Just Scheu Just or JUST may refer to: Arts and entertainment * "Just" (song), 1995, by Radiohead * ''Just!'', Australian author Andy Griffiths' children's story collections * ''Just'', a 1998 album by Dave Lindholm * "Just", a 2005 song on ''Lost and Found ...

as Direktor bei Lloyds * Theo Pöppinghaus as Aldo * Erich Weiher as Polizeibeamter * Joachim Rake as Perreira * Theo Tecklenburg as Südländer

Production

The film is the second adaptation of the Luxembourgish 1927 novel ''Plüsch und Plümowski'' by

, the first being the 1927 film ''

The Bordello in Rio ''The Bordello in Rio'' or ''The Women's House of Rio'' () is a 1927 silent film, silent drama film directed by Hans Steinhoff and starring Vivian Gibson, Albert Steinrück and Hans Stüwe. It was based on a novel by Norbert Jacques which was re ...

''.

Reception

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

References

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.

External links

* 1950 films 1950s crime thriller films German crime thriller films West German films 1950s German-language films Films directed by Eugen York Remakes of German films Films about prostitution in Germany Films about prostitution in Brazil German black-and-white films 1950s German films Films shot in Hamburg Films shot at Göttingen Studios Films based on works by Norbert Jacques {{crime-thriller-film-stub