Die schöne Lurette

• Evelyn Cron: Lurette
• Papez Jirí: Campistrel
• Otto Mellie: Duke of Marly
• Hannjo Hasse: Malicorne
• Marianne Wünscher: Marcelline
• Josefsburg angle: Abbé
• Lore Fresh: Rose
• Jochen Thomas: Belhomme
• Werner Lierck: Merluchet
• Bodo Mette: Cigogne
• Jochen Diestelmann: Bosierie
• Peter Kiwitt: Cadignon
• Rolf Ripperger: first journeyman
• Willi Neuenhahn: 2 Journeyman
• Herbert Köfer: courtier

The beautiful Lurette is a German operetta film adaptation of the DEFA by Gottfried Kolditz from the year 1960.

Action

Paris in 1764: laundress Lurette is swarmed by men, but loves the simple carpenter Campistrel. The building just with his friends at a wax figure parody of Madame Pompadour, that he wants to carry through the streets at the upcoming carnival. With her he wants to denounce the power of Pompadour over the king and their extravagance. Until the completion of the men's figure, however, have to hide not only from the eyes of soldiers, but also of the secret police in person by Malicorne. This is achieved include the use of the washerwomen, who pervert the men's head - much to the displeasure of Upper laundress Marcelline, who once seduced by a nobleman and was jilted and her girls will therefore keep away from the men.

Lurette had noticed the Duke of Marly in lingerie unsubscribe. He offered her to accompany them home and Lurette adopted to make Campistrel jealous. The Duke has now fallen in love with Lurette knows, however, that Campistrel would not let him Lurette. With Malicorne he wonders how he could have Lurette yet. An arrest is excluded, but both men want to make the carnival advantage. Lurette Marly should be wedded as carnival princess as part of a carnival wedding. However, the marriage ceremony is to be performed without the knowledge Lurettes by a real Abbé and be as legally binding. Lurette turn should only pretended to be his wife Marlys and ascend into the new reality Lieblingsmätresse of the king, and as Madame Pompadour, the Malicorne is to replace an eyesore.

Malicorne appears in the laundry and recognizes in Marcelline the laundress, he once seduced. He closes unnoticed in the basement and then announced that Lurette was selected as carnival princess for the Duke of Marly. Campistrel turns jealous before Lurette, now just accepts to go to Marly. Since the trapped Marcelline makes loudly attention, Malicorne flees with Lurette in the car to Marlys mansion. Lurette is surprised, she thought, but that other washerwomen were invited to Marly. In the mansion Marlys Lurette is ridiculed by the attending Carnival guests due to their laundry chute clothes. It makes Marly clear that she wants to go back immediately, but hesitates when she sees the beautiful dress that Marly has worried for them. She dresses and walks decked out in Marly for determining society. Campistrel followed her and mingled unrecognized with the guests. As he looks so transformed Lurette, he takes off his mask and reproaches her, to sell itself to the fine folks. Lurette applied flees back into the changing room and clothes around. Campistrel makes the laundresses and his colleagues get. He suddenly hears call the Abbé outside of the mansion. He was imprisoned in a room where the ceremony is to take place later, but suffers because he gets no alcohol. Campistrel increases in unto him, and bring him with plenty of alcohol. So he learns at the end of the plan of Marly and Malicorne.

The washerwomen appear to liberate Lurette. Marcelline begins with the hunt for Malicorne while the washerwomen Lurette that has not yielded Marlys Advertise get out of her room. Marly admits defeat apparently, but asks for the harmless carnival wedding. However, the Abbé proves Campistrel, the Lurette at the wedding asking if she was ready to become the mistress of the king. Then he takes off his disguise and suggests Malicorne with the marriage contract drawn up in the face. Lurette recognizes that Campistrel has saved them from much damage and happily falls on his neck. Marcelline turn blames himself, to have the wrong Malicorne mourned for so many years. Marly wants to arrest Campistrel, but storm the men with the figure of Pompadour the mansion. The washerwomen mock the nobles present with a song and all the ordinary workers pull together at the end of the hall into the open.

Production

The beautiful Lurette is based on the eponymous operetta by Jacques Offenbach, which had its world premiere after his death in 1880. Unlike the original Campistrel is active against authority and comes at the end along with Lurette, but the Duke of Marly prefers in the operetta. The film was made in 1960 in the studios of Babelsberg. The costumes created Hans pebble creek, the Filmbauten come from Alfred Tolle.

The film experienced on December 25, 1960 at the Colosseum in Berlin and Potsdam in Charlott its premiere. With over three million viewers among the beautiful Lurette the most successful DEFA productions. On September 8, 1961, the film on DFF 1 ran for the first time in the GDR television and aired on 3 August 1996 to ORB in the West German television. Icestorm released the film on DVD in 2009.

Synchronization

The singing of the performers was synchronized, opera singers Josef Burg angle, which represented the Abbé, sang his role as the sole itself

Criticism

Contemporary critics praised the features of the film that have made ​​the Offenbach operetta a " pompous Canvas Large Output". They criticized the " socially critical elements " that act placed.

The filmdienst called The beautiful Lurette " superficial social criticism in an emphatically elaborate but largely unimaginative basically and unsuccessfully tried to Esprit film adaptation of the operetta by Jacques Offenbach. "