1 reviews
Comedy/Music
1h 35m
1951
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...

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.
- DirectorPaul Martin
- Release9 August 1951
- Genre
- Duration1h 35m
- Budget?
- Revenue?
- Rate1 reviews
- Productions
Cast

Sonja Ziemann
Euritrite

Paul Hörbiger
Sokrates

Loni Heuser
Xanthippe

Walter Giller
Platon

Oskar Sima
Perikles

Fita Benkhoff
Stabila

Rudolf Platte
Musarion

Heinz Engelmann
Philtas

Willi Rose
Orantes

Hubert von Meyerinck
Korinthischer General

Werner Finck
Kretischer General

Ursula Herking
Sibylle

Ralf Wolter
Pachules

Ewald Wenck
ein Levantiner

Paul Westermeier
ein Seemann

Friedrich Domin
Mazedonischer General
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