A special film kiss - Nadja Tiller and Hildegard Knef in the Austrian film adaptation "Lulu"
In addition to Elke Sommer and Barbara Valentin, the wonderful Nadja Tiller is one of the few German film stars, whose erotic charisma was also perceived internationally. The role of Nadja in Viscontis "Rocco and his brothers" was written especially for her. Unfortunately it didn't come about. She was not only able to play her remarkable acting skills in the classic "The Girl Rosemarie". In 2015, for example, Nadja Tiller, born in 1929, delighted as Mrs. Higgins in the "My Fair Lady" production at the Staatstheater Braunschweig.
In the film adaptation of a play (1913) by Frank Wedekind, she plays under the direction of Rolf Thiele, whom she already knew from the "Rosemarie" film, the erotic nedwoman Lulu. The script comes from the Derrick creator Herbert Reinecker. The Vienna film, rotated in Vienna, premiered on June 7, 1962 in the Turm Palace in Frankfurt am Main.
14 -year -old Lulu is on the street by the scientist Dr. Beautiful (Hitchcock star O. E. Hasse, also next to GOLDEN GLOBE nominee Lilli Palmer in "The Glass Tower") and brought home. He wants to make her a lady, but fails to recognize the erotic power that she knows more and more on the men. First he married you to the much older Dr. Goll (Leon Askin, who also had appearances in "One, two, three" and in the first Cinemascope film "The Robe"), which soon ends tragically when the virile painter Schwarz (Sieghardt Rupp) falls uninhibited her. This relationship also fails. And soon Lulu will go from man to man (EUROPEAN FILM AWARD nominee Mario Adorf, Rudolf Forster), who all expire to her and underlook them. The mysterious Countess Schwitz (Hildegard Knef, also in "Alraune" and "Treffpunkt Kanalstraße"), Lulus stimulates and cannot stop her own downfall. There is a sensational lesbian film kiss between the two superstars Nadja Tiller and Hildegard Knef, which was very daring for that time. Nadja Tiller and Hildegard Knef, who are walking here in the footsteps of the great Marlene Dietrich, are not enough recognition for their fearless representation, which was still ahead of their time! After "The Girl Rosemarie" (1958), director Rolf Thiele (1918-1994) had developed into a filmmaker, which was explored in German-language film. A special feature in the German film landscape, which can also be viewed in "Grieche sucht Griechin" (1966) with Heinz Rühmann and Irina Demick. The history of the Lulu ends tragically when she meets Jack the Ripper (Charles Regnier, who was married to Wedekind Daughter Pamela).
A film that is unusual for the German -language film industry, in which a classic abuse of abuse is told here. A supposed creature from the street is trained as an erotic longing object, which has cruel consequences for everyone involved. Relentlessly, poetically excessive, very clear for the time!
A remarkable black and white film with a dark story that offers a reunion with many German-language film stars.
