Florentine

Lamač lovely farewell with Austria. This is also how we can look at his passage through the European film industry before World War II. While he and Anny Ondra fought their way into Europe in six silent Austrian films, the 1930s brought 13 Austrian projects associated with Ondra, Lamač, or both. Florentine is at the very end of this period. The father of Florentine (Geraldine Katt), this cute little girl, far from yet being a young lady, is the naval captain Paul Hörbiger, the much-loved face of Lamač's films. The resulting film is a deliciously endearing spectacle about a girl with sailor blood. Of course, Florentine will have a whole series of adventures on the mainland because she should learn about other ways of life. For the first time, she takes her first look at proper hangouts, listens to the latest hits, gets drunk, discovers that she might like men (but only some of them) and, in the end, perhaps even forgives her captain father for her new mother. (21.03.2013)