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Blondes for Export
1950 film by Eugen York From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Blondes for Export (German: Export in Blond) is a 1950 West German crime thriller film directed by Eugen York and starring Lotte Koch, Catja Görna and René Deltgen. Norbert Jacques wrote the screenplay, adapting his own novel.[1][2] It was shot at the Göttingen Studios and on location around Hamburg. The film's sets were designed by the art director Hans Ledersteger and Ernst Richter.
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Plot
In Hamburg during the late 1940s, a blonde young girl is kidnapped by human traffickers and taken to South America.
Cast
- Lotte Koch as Yvonne Moréen
- Catja Görna as Iris Gorla
- René Deltgen as Frank Olman
- Albrecht Schoenhals as Gorla
- Peter van Eyck as Rolf Carste
- Ursula Grabley as Emmi Kruschke
- Ursula Herking as Fräulein Lührs
- Änne Bruck as Frau Hessling
- Carl-Heinz Schroth as Roschek
- Albert Florath as Professor
- Hans Leibelt as Intendant Hallerstedt
- Hans Richter as Artist Freddie
- Franz Schafheitlin as Polizeikommissar in Rio
- Josef Dahmen as Armand
- Peter Mosbacher as Alvaro
- Just Scheu as Direktor bei Lloyds
- Theo Pöppinghaus as Aldo
- Erich Weiher as Polizeibeamter
- Joachim Rake as Perreira
- Theo Tecklenburg as Südländer
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Production
The film is the second adaptation of the Luxembourgish 1927 novel Plüsch und Plümowski by Norbert Jacques,[3] the first being the 1927 film The Bordello in Rio.[4][5]
Reception
A retrospective commentary from the Lexikon des internationalen Filmen finds the "theme (of human trafficking) treated in an unrealistic and cheap sensationalistic way."[6]
See also
White slavery was the subject of various films, including the following:
- White Cargo (1937)
- Cargaison blanche (1958)
- Final Destination: Red Lantern (1960)
References
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External links
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