Ways to a Good Marriage

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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.^{[1] [2]} 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.^[3] The film was based on the ideas of the sexologist Theodore H. Van de Velde and was in the tradition of the enlightenment 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.^[4]

A separate French-language version L'amour qu'il faut aux femmes was released in 1934 and was also directed by Trotz although featured a different cast except for Olga Chekhova.

Cast

• Olga Chekhova as Claire Veiler, die unbefriedigte Frau
• Alfred Abel as Generaldirektor Veller, der Mann, der Kindersegen fürchtet
• Hilde Hildebrand as Eugenie von Bergen, die nymphomanische Frau
• Theodor Loos as Dr. von Bergen, der betrogene Mann
• Ali Ghito as Nadja, die eifersüchtige Frau
• Hertha Guthmar as Marceline, eine Studentin
• Lisa Mar as Eine Gymnastiklehrerin
• Lotte Lorring as Die hübsche Sekretärin
• Otto Wallburg as 'Tange Paula', Eheberatung
• Walter Janssen as Dr. Bäumler, der Mann, der keine Zeit hat

References

Bibliography

• Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
• Hull, David Stewart. Film in the Third Reich: A Study of the German Cinema, 1933-1945. University of California Press, 1969.
• Klaus, Ulrich J. Deutsche Tonfilme: Jahrgang 1933. Klaus-Archiv, 1988.

External links

• Ways to a Good Marriage at IMDb