Blondes for Export
1950 film by Eugen York
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. 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.
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
Production
The film is the second adaptation of the Luxembourgish 1927 novel Plüsch und Plümowski by Norbert Jacques, the first being the 1927 film The Bordello in Rio.
Reception
A retrospective commentary from the Lexikon des internationalen Filmen finds the "theme (of human trafficking) treated in an unrealistic and cheap sensationalistic way."
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
Bibliography
Hans-Michael Bock and Tim Bergfelder. The Concise Cinegraph: An Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
Thomas Elsaesser & Michael Wedel.
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