Love from Paris

Love from Paris original title Monpti is a 1957 West German film directed by Helmut Kutner and starring Romy Schneider and Horst Buchholz. It was based on the novel of the same title by Gbor von Vaszary. Vaszary also worked on the screenplay. The film premiered on September 12, 1957 in Lichtburg in Essen. The cinematographer was Heinz Pehlke, who used different techniques to convey the mood of the film, including using a concealed camera to capture the sights and sounds of Paris. The original copy of the film is archived at the Akademie der Knste in Berlin.

At the same time, the story of a second couple is told, whose relationship stands in stark contrast to the main story.The Lexicon des Internationalen Films wrote, In Paris, a hungry 23yearold artist from Budapest plays an erotic catandmouse game with an orphaned 17yearold seamstress, until the girls death from an accident puts an end to it. A melancholy romantic comedy is told by an old Bistro customer, who functions as a sort of keyhole peeper in a cabaretlike farce. A melodramatic, compact, at times very suggestive battle of the sexesmale lust and feminine stalling tactics, focusing on a fascinating, young Romy Schneider. ........

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