REVIEW: DAS HAUS AN DER KÜSTE / KUCA NA OBALI/HOUSE ON THE COAST 1954 The last Sybille Schmitz (Vampyr) movie: A balkan crime-drama par excellence!
A strange little movie we got here. After the atrocities on both sides during WWII, a Bosnian-German-Austrian production was set on the beautiful Dalmatian coast. Showcasing Dubrovnik and Sybille Schmitz. Let me introduce the characters. We got Anna, a former beauty and well-educated widow of a shipowner who now has to rent out rooms and work in a tavern in Dubrovnik (yes, the Game Of Thrones town) for Beppo. Beppo is the quintessential brute who once had a thing with Anna and together they planned an accident at sea to get the insurance money. Anna planned this, and Beppo executed the shipwrecking. Sadly, 25 sailors lost their lives back then. And Beppo has proof of this. Anna and Beppo So he blackmails Anna into all sorts of services, most of all marrying her beautiful daughter Marina to him when she will turn 18. Of course Beppo cannot keep his hands off stunning and beautiful Marina before marriage, and she flees to relatives. While she is away, Branco, a new doctor for ...
