The Women of Mr. S.

7.0
19511h 35m

The action is relocated to occupied Athens after the Peloponnesian War (404 BC), where Mr. S. (= Socrates, played by Paul Hörbiger) proposes double marriage for men to the Athenian parliament and the four occupying powers for hidden personal reasons. Outwardly, he is concerned with providing for the many war widows. His deeper intention is to free the beautiful slave Euritrite as a concubine alongside the quarrelsome Xanthippe. The four occupying powers of the Macedonians (= US Americans), Persians (= Russians), Cretans (= English) and Corinthians (= French) are gently teased. On Socrates' advice, the law is adopted with an anonymous dissenting vote so that everyone at home can claim that it was him. Socrates can marry Euritrite. Xanthippe, however, favors the mutual infatuation of Euritrite and Socrates' student Plato (who had already invented Platonic love out of sheer desperation), and the other women also know how to spoil their husbands' pleasure in the new law.

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Photo of Sonja Ziemann

Sonja Ziemann

Euritrite

Photo of Loni Heuser

Loni Heuser

Xanthippe

Photo of Oskar Sima

Oskar Sima

Perikles

Photo of Willi Rose

Willi Rose

Orantes

Photo of Hubert von Meyerinck

Hubert von Meyerinck

Korinthischer General

Photo of Werner Finck

Werner Finck

Kretischer General

Photo of Ralf Wolter

Ralf Wolter

Pachules

Photo of Ewald Wenck

Ewald Wenck

ein Levantiner

Photo of Paul Westermeier

Paul Westermeier

ein Seemann

Photo of Friedrich Domin

Friedrich Domin

Mazedonischer General

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