''The Sweet Sins of Sexy Susan'' (

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n release: ''Susanne, die Wirtin von der Lahn'',

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release: ''Die Wirtin von der Lahn'') is a 1967 Austrian

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film directed by

Franz Antel Franz Antel (28 June 1913 – 11 August 2007) was a veteran Austrian filmmaker. Born in Vienna, Antel worked mainly as a film producer in the interwar years. After World War II, he began writing and directing films on a large scale. In the ...

Background

Kurt Nachmann and Franz Antel created the lead character Susanne Delberg, a courtesan-actress, later

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and eventual social climber during and after the

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, with inspiration from ''Wirtinnenvers'', a well-known profane

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about the exploits of an innkeeper woman from the

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Plot

In the

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, a drunken innkeeper woman (

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), just before her death, bequeaths her inn to Susanne Delberg (

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as Terry Torday), barring the sole beneficiary Goppelmann (

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) from the inheritance. Goppelmann recruits the local

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to discredit Susanne's establishment. The tide turns when Susanne manages to seduce the student leader Anselmo ( Mike Marshall) but through him, she finds herself in a conspiracy against the governor Dulce (

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) and the marching

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also involving her friend Ferdinand (

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Cast

: Susanne Delberg *

: Ferdinand * Pascale Petit: Caroline * Mike Marshall: Anselmo *

: Governor Dulce *

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: Wendich *

: Goppelmann *

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: Sophie *

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: Pumpernickel *

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: Dorine *

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: Bertha *Ljuba Welitsch: the innkeeper woman

''Frau Wirtin'' series

Although the heroine ostensibly dies at the end of the film, the commercial success of ''The Sweet Sins of Sexy Susan'' triggered the ''Frau Wirtin'' (or ''Sexy Susan'') series of five films on later adventures of Susanne Delberg, all of them featuring Teri Tordai in the title role. The first two films (''

Sexy Susan Sins Again ''Sexy Susan Sins Again'' (German: ''Frau Wirtin hat auch einen Grafen'', Italian: ''Susanna... ed i suoi dolci vizi alla corte del re'') is a 1968 Austrian-Italian costume drama-adventure-sex comedy film directed by Franz Antel. It is the first f ...

'' (Frau Wirtin hat auch einen Grafen, 1968) and '' House of Pleasure'' (Frau Wirtin hat auch eine Nichte, 1969)) narrate Susanne's adventures involving

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. The following two films (''Sexy Susan Knows How...!'' (Frau Wirtin bläst auch gern Trompete, 1970) and ''The Hostess Exceeds All Bounds'' (Frau Wirtin treibt es jetzt noch toller, 1970)) are about Susanne's exploits in

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where she settles after Napoleon is deposed in 1814. The last film (''

The Countess Died of Laughter ''The Countess Died of Laughter'' (German: ''Frau Wirtins tolle Töchterlein'', Italian: ''Leva lo diavolo tuo dal... convento'') is a 1973 Austrian-Italian sex comedy film directed by Franz Antel. It is the final entry in Franz Antel's series '' ...

'' (Frau Wirtins tolle Töchterlein, 1973)), produced three years after the previous one was conceived as a closing chapter of Susanne's life and diverts from the earlier films of the series in several aspects, also incorporating a great deal of archive footage from earlier films. Kurt Nachmann, the screenwriter for the series wrote and directed a film with a similar theme in 1970: ''Josefine Mutzenbacher'' based on the novel '' Josephine Mutzenbacher – The Life Story of a Viennese Whore, as Told by Herself''.

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