Lulu (1962 film)

Lulu
Lulu
Directed by	Rolf Thiele
Screenplay by	Rolf Thiele
Based on	The Lulu plays; by Frank Wedekind
Produced by	Otto Dürer
Starring	Nadja Tiller; O. E. Hasse; Hildegard Knef;
Cinematography	Michel Kelber
Edited by	Eleonore Kunze
Music by	Karl de Groof
Production; company	Vienna Film
Distributed by	Europa-Filmverleih AG; NWDF;
Release date	June 7, 1962 (West Germany);
Running time	100 min.
Country	Austria
Language	German

Lulu (also released in the UK as No Orchids for Lulu) is a 1962 Austrian crime drama film written and directed by Rolf Thiele. The film is an adaptation of Frank Wedekind's Lulu plays—Earth Spirit (Erdgeist, 1895) and Pandora's Box (Die Büchse der Pandora, 1904)—and stars Nadja Tiller (as Lulu), O. E. Hasse, and Hildegard Knef.

Sadoul's Dictionary of Films describes Thiele's work as "[a] heavy-handed, almost absurd version" of Wedekind's plays.^[1] But Robert von Dassanowsky credits Lulu as one of the "few notable [Austrian] dramas during the early 1960s".^[2]

Plot

The story of a sexually enticing young dancer who rises up in society through her relationships with wealthy men, but later falls into poverty and prostitution, culminating in an encounter with Jack 'the Ripper'.

Cast

Nadja Tiller: Lulu
O. E. Hasse: Dr. Schön
Hildegard Knef: Gräfin Geschwitz
Mario Adorf: Rodrigo
Charles Regnier: Jack the Ripper
Rudolf Forster: Schigolch
Leon Askin: Medizinialrat Dr. Goll
Sieghardt Rupp: Maler Schwarz
Claus Höring: Alva Schön

References

^ Sadoul, Georges (1972) [1965]. Dictionary of Films. Translated, edited and updated by Peter Morris. Berkeley; Los Angeles: University of California Press. p. 46. ISBN 0-520-01864-8. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
^ Dassanowsky, Robert von (November 2006). "Austria's 1960s Film Trauma: Notes on a Cinematic Phoenix". Undercurrents (3). FIPRESCI. Archived from the original on 24 December 2012. Retrieved 29 March 2013.