Bel Ami

"You're lucky with the ladies, Bel Ami!" In later years, the famous hit song also found its place in Erika Pluhar's repertoire. The story of the determined careerist Georges Duroy, who gets ahead less through his own ability than through his irresistible charm, went down in film history above all with Willi Forst's first cinema adaptation in 1939. Helmut Käutner's television version almost 40 years later is praised above all for its respectful treatment of the original and the outstanding cast - for Erika Pluhar, admired for her "sceptical smile" and the "gracefully self-confident gestures as the masterfully enigmatic femme de lettres Madeleine" (Funk-Korrespondent), it is above all her breakthrough with German audiences.