The Sweet Sins of Sexy Susan | |
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Directed by | Franz Antel |
Written by | Kurt Nachmann |
Produced by | Carl Szokoll Kurt Kodal |
Starring | Teri Tordai Harald Leipnitz |
Cinematography | Siegfried Hold |
Music by | Gianni Ferrio |
Distributed by | Variety Distribution |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
Countries | Austria, Germany |
Language | German |
The Sweet Sins of Sexy Susan (Austrian release: Susanne, die Wirtin von der Lahn, West German release: Die Wirtin von der Lahn) is a 1967 Austrian costume drama-sex comedy film directed by Franz Antel. [1]
Kurt Nachmann and Franz Antel created the lead character Susanne Delberg, a courtesan-actress, later madame and eventual social climber during and after the Napoleonic Wars, with inspiration from Wirtinnenvers, a well-known profane commercium song about the exploits of an innkeeper woman from the Lahn.[ citation needed ]
In the Kingdom of Westphalia, a drunken innkeeper woman (Ljuba Welitsch), just before her death, bequeaths her inn to Susanne Delberg (Teri Tordai as Terry Torday). As a result, her rival Goppelmann (Oskar Sima), who would have been first in line to inherit the inn, gets nothing. Goppelmann recruits the local Studentenverbindung to discredit Susanne's establishment. The tide turns when Susanne manages to seduce the student leader Anselmo (Mike Marshall) but through him, she finds herself in a conspiracy against the governor Dulce (Jacques Herlin) and the marching Grande Armée also involving her friend Ferdinand (Harald Leipnitz).
Although the heroine ostensibly dies at the end of the film, the commercial success of The Sweet Sins of Sexy Susan triggered the Frau Wirtin (or Sexy Susan) series of five films on later adventures of Susanne Delberg, all of them featuring Teri Tordai in the title role.
The first two films ( Sexy Susan Sins Again (Frau Wirtin hat auch einen Grafen, 1968) and House of Pleasure (Frau Wirtin hat auch eine Nichte, 1969)) narrate Susanne's adventures involving Napoleon Bonaparte. The following two films (Sexy Susan Knows How...! (Frau Wirtin bläst auch gern Trompete, 1970) and The Hostess Exceeds All Bounds (Frau Wirtin treibt es jetzt noch toller, 1970)) are about Susanne's exploits in Hungary where she settles after Napoleon is deposed in 1814. The last film ( The Countess Died of Laughter (Frau Wirtins tolle Töchterlein, 1973)), produced three years after the previous one was conceived as a closing chapter of Susanne's life and diverts from the earlier films of the series in several aspects, also incorporating a great deal of archive footage from earlier films.
Kurt Nachmann, the screenwriter for the series wrote and directed a film with a similar theme in 1970: Josefine Mutzenbacher based on the novel Josephine Mutzenbacher – The Life Story of a Viennese Whore, as Told by Herself .
Franz Antel was a veteran Austrian filmmaker.
Karl Farkas was an Austrian actor and cabaret performer.
Ljuba Welitsch was an operatic soprano. She was born in Borisovo, Bulgaria, studied in Sofia and Vienna, and sang in opera houses in Austria and Germany in the late 1930s and early and mid-1940s. In 1946 she became an Austrian citizen.
Michael William Marshall was a French American actor.
Harald Leipnitz was a German actor, who was born in Wuppertal and died in Munich of lung cancer.
Heinrich Schweiger was an Austrian film and stage actor who played leading roles at the Burgtheater on the Ring beginning in 1949. Among the plays in which he starred were Schiller's Don Carlos, Shakespeare's Othello and Richard III and Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera.
Why Did I Ever Say Yes Twice? is a 1969 German-Italian comedy film directed by Franz Antel and starring Lando Buzzanca, Teri Tordai and Raffaella Carrà. A railway worker has two wives, one in Munich and the other in Rome. It is also known as The Viking Who Became a Bigamist.
Rudolf Prack was an Austrian film actor.
Teri Tordai is a Hungarian actress.
Ilse Fürstenberg was a German actress, working on stage, screen, television and as voice actress.
Alexa von Porembsky was a Hungarian-born German actress.
Einer spinnt immer is a 1971 Austrian / West German film directed by Franz Antel.
Jacques Herlin was a French character actor.
The Countess Died of Laughter is a 1973 Austrian-Italian sex comedy film directed by Franz Antel. It is the final entry in Franz Antel's series Frau Wirtin and incorporates a great deal of archive footage from earlier films.
Sexy Susan Sins Again is a 1968 Austrian-Italian costume drama-adventure-sex comedy film directed by Franz Antel. It is the first film of the series Frau Wirtin, following the 1967 film The Sweet Sins of Sexy Susan.
Rosemarie Lindt is a German actress and ballet dancer who was known to the wider audience for her appearances in Frau Wirtin series in the late 1960s and in Italian exploitation cinema of the 1970s.
Hannelore Kramm née Auer was an Austrian Schlager singer and film actress who managed the German singer Heino.
Target in the Clouds is a 1939 German drama film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner and starring Albert Matterstock, Leny Marenbach and Brigitte Horney. It was based on a novel by Hans Rabl. The film portrays the struggles of the fictional German aviation pioneer Walter von Suhr, an officer in the pre-First World War German army who saw the potential for military aircraft.
House of Pleasure is a 1969 historical comedy film directed by Franz Antel and starring Teri Tordai, Claudio Brook and Margaret Lee. It is the third in the series of films which began with The Sweet Sins of Sexy Susan (1967).
My Father, the Ape and I is a 1971 Austrian-West German comedy film directed by Franz Antel and starring Gerhart Lippert, Mascha Gonska, Paul Löwinger.