The Women of Mr. S.

The Women of Mr. S. (1951)

ComedyMusic

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.

Director: Paul Martin

Casts

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

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