Blondes for Export


Blondes for Export is a 1950 West German crime thriller film directed by Eugen York and starring Lotte Koch, Catja Görna and René Deltgen. Norbert Jacques wrote the screenplay, adapting his own novel. It was shot at the Göttingen Studios and on location around Hamburg. The film's sets were designed by the art director Hans Ledersteger and Ernst [Richter |Ernst Richter].

Plot

In Hamburg during the late 1940s, a blonde young girl is kidnapped by human traffickers and taken to South America.

Cast

The film is the second adaptation of the Luxembourgish 1927 novel Plüsch und Plümowski by Norbert Jacques, the first being the 1927 film The Bordello in Rio.

Reception

A retrospective commentary from the Lexikon des internationalen Filmen finds the "theme treated in an unrealistic and cheap sensationalistic way."