The Simple Girl

The Simple Girl
The Simple Girl
Directed by	Werner Jacobs
Written by	Curth Flatow; [de];
Produced by	Artur Brauner
Starring	Caterina Valente; Rudolf Prack; Ruth Stephan;
Cinematography	Friedl Behn-Grund
Edited by	Jutta Hering
Music by	[de]
Production; company	CCC Film
Distributed by	Gloria Film
Release date	23 August 1957
Running time	94 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

The Simple Girl (German: Das einfache Mädchen) is a 1957 West German musical comedy film directed by Werner Jacobs and produced by Artur Brauner. It starred Caterina Valente, Rudolf Prack and Ruth Stephan.^[1]

Production[]

The film was directed by German director Werner Jacobs and produced by Artur Brauner. It is based on an idea by Curth Flatow who also wrote the screenplay, together with [de].^[1] The working title was Bravo, Caterina. Horst Wendlandt was line producer and Brauner's wife, Maria, was in charge of costume design.^[1] Filming took place in May 1957 at the Spandau Studios in Berlin.^[1] The film's sets were designed by the art directors Emil Hasler and Paul Markwitz.

The film premiered on 23 August 1957 at the Thalia in Wiesbaden.^[1]

Plot[]

Caterina Bastiani, a talented young actress, is offered the leading role in a musical. This is her big break but the author of the novel on which the musical is based is less than pleased about this adaption — and he does not think much of Caterina. Caterina meets a girl by accident who has applied to work for the author as a maid. She takes the girl's place in order to prove her talent as an actress and shows up at the author's home as the new maid herself.^[1]

Cast[]

Caterina Valente as Caterina Bastiani
Rudolf Prack as Thomas Krauss
Ruth Stephan as Milli
Rudolf Platte as Werner Pätzold
Dorit Kreysler as Mrs. Seidel
Helen Vita as Eva Krapke
Peter W. Staub as Pit
as Jürgen Krauss
as Robert Holden
Hans Olden as Anton Schwarz
Franz-Otto Krüger as Regisseur
Henry Lorenzen as Komponist Heino Kies
Herbert Weißbach as Baron Westhoff^[1]
as Baronin Westhoff

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Filmportal: Das einfache Mädchen". Retrieved 31 March 2013.

Bibliography[]

Hans-Michael Bock and Tim Bergfelder. The Concise Cinegraph: An Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links[]

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