Redhead (film)
- Ruth Leuwerik: Franziska Lukas
- Rossano Brazzi: Fabio
- Giorgio Albertazzi: Patrick O'Malley
- Harry Meyen: Herbert Luke
- Richard Münch: Joachim
- Gert Frobe: Kramer
The Red is a German - Italian movie from the year 1962. It is based on the novel by Alfred Andersch, who also wrote the screenplay. The premiere was on 30 June 1962.
Action
Franziska Lukas lives in Germany in a bourgeois milieu and feels her marriage to Herbert Luke as extremely boring. Also a love affair with another man is little change in the state of boredom. While it lacks anything, but she is about to turn 40 and would like to give their lives a different turn. The current life seems to her sight. She breaks out and goes to Venice. There she looks for work and begins to work in a hotel as a maid. The change and new acquaintances can now appear more exciting their lives. Erotic and criminal adventure they expect now. She meets a former British officer who wants revenge on a German Nazi. Franziska has to realize that this man used only for his plans. When her this is clear, it also escapes from this situation.
Reviews
- Lexicon of international film: " Käutner film does not reach nearly the narrative quality, complexity and time-critical importance of the novel. Ruth Leuwerik remains the main character their intelligent vitality guilty. Gert Frobe, however, in the role of a Nazi murderer Kramer delivers a tour de force. "
- Heyne Movie Encyclopedia (1996 ): " Failed, boring movie, in which alone Gert Frobe shines as an actor. "
- In an interview with the Süddeutsche Zeitung 's 80th Birthday Ruth Leuwerik was asked the question: "One of the last films that time is one of your best, " The Red ", based on the novel by Alfred Andersch. " Answer by Ruth Leuwerik: " The at the Berlinale, and it was quite bleak, but the work was very nice and the atmosphere of Venice is wonderfully captured this whole. .. " Morbidezza " ( = softness). "
Awards
The film was invited to the Berlinale competition in 1962, but failed to win the award.