| Blondes for Export | |
| Director: | Eugen York |
| Music: | Wolfgang Zeller |
| Editing: | Walter Fredersdorf |
| Studio: | Standard-Filmverleih |
| Distributor: | Lloyd Film |
| Runtime: | 81 minutes |
| Country: | West Germany |
Blondes for Export (German: '''Export in Blond''') is a 1950 West German crime thriller film directed by Eugen York and starring Lotte Koch, Catja Görna and René Deltgen. Norbert Jacques wrote the screenplay, adapting his own novel.[1] [2] It was shot at the Göttingen Studios and on location around Hamburg. The film's sets were designed by the art director Hans Ledersteger and Ernst Richter.
In Hamburg during the late 1940s, a blonde young girl is kidnapped by human traffickers and taken to South America.
The film is the second adaptation of the Luxembourgish 1927 novel Plüsch und Plümowski by Norbert Jacques,[3] the first being the 1927 film The Bordello in Rio.[4] [5]
A retrospective commentary from the Lexikon des internationalen Filmen finds the "theme (of human trafficking) treated in an unrealistic and cheap sensationalistic way."[6]
White slavery was the subject of various films, including the following: