Mademoiselle Fifi

original title:
Mademoiselle Fifi
other titles:
Guy de Maupassant's Mademoiselle Fifi
country / year of production:
USA / 1944
original length:
69 min. , black/white
premiere:
genre:
adventure
based on:
Guy de Maupassant. Mademoiselle Fifi. Paris: Ollendorff, 1904.
director:
Robert Wise
film script:
Guy de Maupassant , Josef Mischel
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composer:
cast (role):
John Emery , Kurt Kreuger , Alan Napier
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plot synopsis:
The film takes place during the Franco-Prussian war in 1870 and deals with a brutal Prussian Officer, who rules a French village. His nickname is "Mademoiselle Fifi". When a stagecoach brings some passengers to town, the Prussian officer wants to kill them all. One of the passengers is Elizabeth, who shall surrender herself sexually to the tyrant, to secure the freedom of the passengers. On her "mission" she is abled to eliminate "Mademoiselle Fifi".
keywords:
occupation , women during wartime , battle-fatigue , order and obedience , liberation , home front
war:
Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871)
literature:
Ulrich Rauscher (Hrsg.): Vierzig Jahre aus dem Leben eines Toten: Hinterlassene Papiere eines französisch-preußischen Offiziers. Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1922.
remarks:
Was filmed in Big Bear Valley in California.
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