A Call Girl Named Rosemarie

Prostitution and economic miracles

by Liz Brent

posted 2/1/2003

A Call Girl Named Rosemarie (Rolf Thiele, 1958) is a bitter commentary on the evils of capitalism attendant on West Germany's Wirtschaftswunder ("economic miracle") that followed World War II. Thiele portrays the economic miracle as the province of ruthless businessmen, in this instance ten members of an industrial insulation cartel centered in

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