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Toxi (1952)

ALL 08/15/1952 (de) Drama 79 Min
  • Release
    08/15/1952
  • Production
    Allianz, Fono Film
  • Rotten tomato
    35%
  • Original title
    Toxi
  • Original language
    de
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

This German slice-of-life drama is based on a very real postwar dilemma. At the time the film was made, there were over 3000 children living in Germany who'd been fathered by African American GIs. Referred to as "mischlings," these children were often treated as outcasts because of their illegitimacy and skin color. One such mischling is Toxi (played by herself), who is sent to live with her American father when her mother dies. At first, Toxi is welcomed with opened arms, but the father, who already has two children, has neither the time nor the money to care for the girl. Toxi is then bundled off to an orphanage, sparking a serious rift in her father's family. By concentrating on a highly fictionalized plotline, Toxi tends to ignore the thousands of other mischlings whose lives are far more complex and tragic than that of the film's central character.

  2. Story

  3. Alice Ludwig

    Editor



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  1. Elfie Fiegert

    Toxi

  2. Paul Bildt

    Grossvater Rose

  3. Johanna Hofer

    Grossmutter Helene

  4. Carola Höhn

    Charlotte Jenrich

  5. Elisabeth Flickenschildt

    Tante Wally

  6. Ernst Waldow

    Übelhack

  7. Erika von Thellmann

    Frau Übelhack

  8. Katharina Brauren

    Vorsteherin

  9. Lotte Brackebusch

    Frau Berstel

  10. Willy Maertens

    Inspektor Plaukart

  11. Gertrud Prey

    Schwester

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Casts : 11 , Crews : 6

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Toxi (1952) 79 Min

ALL 08/15/1952 (de)
Drama
  • Release 08/15/1952
  • Production
    Allianz, Fono Film
  • Original title Toxi
  • de
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

This German slice-of-life drama is based on a very real postwar dilemma. At the time the film was made, there were over 3000 children living in Germany who'd been fathered by African American GIs. Referred to as "mischlings," these children were often treated as outcasts because of their illegitimacy and skin color. One such mischling is Toxi (played by herself), who is sent to live with her American father when her mother dies. At first, Toxi is welcomed with opened arms, but the father, who already has two children, has neither the time nor the money to care for the girl. Toxi is then bundled off to an orphanage, sparking a serious rift in her father's family. By concentrating on a highly fictionalized plotline, Toxi tends to ignore the thousands of other mischlings whose lives are far more complex and tragic than that of the film's central character.

  1. Robert A. Stemmle

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Alice Ludwig

    Editor

  4. Hermann Schwerin, Werner Ludwig

    Producer



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