Ways to a Good Marriage (1933)

Original title

Wege zur guten Ehe

Directed by

Adolf Trotz

Genre

comedy

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 21m

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A German drama from 1933 that adapts the ideas of a sexologist into a story about marriage. The film was caught up in political tensions, facing protests and an eventual ban under the Nazi regime.

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What happens

Ways to a Good Marriage (German: Wege zur guten Ehe) is a 1933 German drama film directed by Adolf Trotz and starring Olga Chekhova, Alfred Abel and Hilde Hildebrand. It was shot at the EFA Studios in Halensee in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Heinz Fenchel and Botho Hoefer. The film was based on the ideas of the sexologist Theodore H. Van de Velde and was in the tradition of the sexual education films of the Weimar Republic. Although his work had already been forbidden by the new Nazi regime, it was not formally banned until 1937 despite protests by Nazi students in Kiel who were successful in having the film pulled from cinemas there. A separate French-language version L'amour qu'il faut aux femmes was released in 1934. While also directed by Trotz, it featured a different cast except for Olga Chekhova. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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