Brilliant and touching

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

It's funny to see that most comments on this movie so far came from Ann Arbor on a single day... classroom assignment? Anyway, I think there's more to the story of Rosemarie Nitribitt. First, she was a real person, lived and died (strangled in her apartment) - see Wikipedia. Her life (including driving a Mercedes 190 coupe) and death was a major scandal in 1950s Germany (roughly comparable to the Keeler/Profumo affair in Britain), and the murderer was never sentenced. This film came out soon after, and somehow touches the sensible points (and others - witness the subtle appearance of the Bundeswehr - marching boots only). But it also alienates them, and the whole story, in a Brechtian way.The two musicians (one of them Mario Adorf of later fame) express the feelings of the "common people" in their songs. But the story is mostly about industrialists in black Mercedes 300s (loved their cavalcade in the parking garage) and their kith and kin. And Rosemarie's futile struggle to be accepted.This movie, technically brilliant as it is, is no easy watching. Being a German roughly familiar with those times, I still think I'll need one or two more viewings. But after the first watch, my impression is that they'll be worth the time. One thing that struck me immediately was the factory tour (Bruster - Gert Froebe - producing "electronic brains"??), with three union men collecting signatures for a child care proposal.German moviegoers in 1958 might have better understood all the subtleties. Almost 50 years later, this is a harder nut to crack, for me at least - but it promises to be worth it. In Germany, the DVD is inexpensively available in a 3-piece "Wirtschaftswunder" set at Weltbild, together with "Rosen für den Staatsanwalt" and "Die Halbstarken" which are very strong too. For me at least, fascinating.

I some what enjoyed Das Madchen Rosemarie because of the following reasons: camera shots in car, plot and storyline, setting, and several characters. The storyline was great and very creative. I guess I like those blackmail movies but, there is a couple parts that I didn't quite pick up on. For example, (this could be a spoiler) near the end Rosemarie receives a call from this guy in a booth and she demands 30,000. Then she hangs up. I was wondering how does she know this man? I felt like I either missed some connection during the movie or the director just threw that in there. Several characters stood out and kept my interest. The two singing men with their act and how they always kept on following Rosemarie. Were these guys suppose to be like musical narrators because sometimes they would be singing, but you would be watching Rosemarie in a different building? Regardless they added some of the comic relief that was needed in parts of the movie. I felt that Hartog was an odd character. He seemed to be too generous that you would expect him to do things in the movie. Another great aspect of this film is the writing. Some of the lines were great and the musical lyrics were hilarious!

Das Maedchen Rosemarie was a very well-done film. It is about a call-girl,Rosemarie, who wants to move up in the world. She begins circulating withimportant capitalist business clients. Then a french client gets her to become a spy for him, and she begins to feel like she has a lot more power and influence then she really does, and becomes a threat to all of the men. In the meanwhile, all she really wants from the situation is to be an upperclass member like all of them. It's sad because, being a prostitute, she can never really be like a rich man's wife, or a member of elite society.One unique thing they did with it was to have two musicians (the two men with whom Rosemarie initially lives and works with) sing songs throughout the movie that have to do with what Rosemarie is currently doing. Their songs reflect on the current situation and foreshadow things to come. It is sort of similar to the two male singers in "There's Something about Mary," only this movie, unlike that one, is not moronic.The fim's being in black and white gives it another interesting effect. It does not have much background music, and reminds one of an Alfred Hitchcock movie inthat respect. It focuses on interesting (and altered/distorted to sound stranger) background noises like the whooshing sound of revolving doors, or the sound of an elevator going up. It also does interesting camera shots such as looking at the carpet (and the shadows of revolving doors) instead of the doorsthemselves. It reminded me of how, in Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock chose to focus on the running water, and shadows, in the famous shower/murder scene,instead of actually depicting the violence.I really liked this movie, and thought it was very well done, and somethingdifferent. Aside from the technical aspects of it, the general story-line was really good in itself, and had a strong message about capitalist germany and how the business and capitalist were taking over everything, and became moreimportant than the personal lives of less cold-hearted, business-minded people such as Rosemarie. Even though she was a prostitute, she was sort of innocent at the same time, because she could not comprehend how hopeless it was forher to wish to be a member of the upper class, and how most people were onlyusing her. She was just a luxury to them, and one more thing they could afford to buy for themselves to make their lives more interesting. They did not want for her to hold any real sway over them, or affect their lives in any way. She did not realize how dangerous it would be for her when she attempted to become a real person.

"Das Mådchen Rosemarie" portrays an interesting view of a West German girl'sintroduction to the capitalist society in which big companies and moneydominate. I found the film to be very interesting. I thought that the camera angles were very unique...especially in initial bar scene. I thought that moving the camera around the bar, without cutting, was a very unique way of viewing the room and all of the people in it. I think that the characters were acted out very well. Hartog was completelystone cold. He rarely ever showed emotion on his face, other than deepthought. Even in the end, when Rosemarie was attempting to get him to leavehis wife for her, he showed very little emotion. This was one aspect of the film that stood out to me. I particularly enjoyed the two young men who used their musical talents to help Rosemarie and later Rebecca on their way into the "big time." Although these two were essentially gold-digging scumbags, they introduced a fair amount ofhumor and unique songs to the film. A perfect example of this humor was when they "tried out" various girls to see which would be the best to take Rosemarie's spot in their trio of sorts. In the middle of the movie, I thought the plot was a little shaky, but in the end it all came together perfectly. All in all, I thoroughly enjoyed the film and thought it portrayed capitalism wonderfully.