The Women of Mr. S.
Die Frauen des Herrn S.
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.
Cast
Oskar Sima
as Perikles
Friedrich Domin
as Mazedonischer General
Fita Benkhoff
as Stabila
Heinz Engelmann
as Philtas
Hubert von Meyerinck
as Korinthischer General
Ursula Herking
as Sibylle
Paul Westermeier
as ein Seemann
Sonja Ziemann
as Euritrite
Rudolf Platte
as Musarion
Werner Finck
as Kretischer General
Paul Hörbiger
as Sokrates
Loni Heuser
as Xanthippe
Walter Giller
as Platon
Willi Rose
as Orantes
Ralf Wolter
as Pachules
Ewald Wenck
as ein Levantiner
