The Apple Fell (The Original Sin)
1948 · Movie · 105 min. · Germany
The "Adam and Eve" story is updated and lightly satirized in the German Der Apfel ist ab (The Original Sin). Adam happens to be married to someone else when he falls in love with his secretary Eve. His guilt over his illicit lustings sends Adam to a Godlike psychiatrist. To test Adam's will power, the doctor gives his patient an apple, ordering him not to eat it. Alas, this strategy is as ineffectual now as it was "In the Beginning". Roundly condemned by religious leaders in Bavaria even before it was produced, Der Apfel ist ab was likewise blocked from several American movie theatres by outraged clergymen. The controversy had no adverse effect on director Helmut Kaeutner, who went on to make such internationally popular films as "The Last Bridge" (1954).
Direction Helmut Käutner
Cast Bobby Todd · Bettina Moissi · Joana Maria Gorvin · Arno Assmann · Helmut Käutner · Irene von Meyendorff · Margarete Haagen · Thea Thiele · Gerda Corbett · Willy Maertens · Nicolas Koline · Carl Voscherau · Bum Krüger · Rudolf Vogel · Sigfrid Brandl
Soundtrack Bernhard Eichhorn
Screenplay Kurd E. Heyne · Helmut Käutner · Bobby Todd
Cinematography Igor Oberberg
Original title Der Apfel ist ab
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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