Walter Samuel
Abridged analytical notes on the film music of Klaus Harmony.
Hamburg, 1997
With The Ladies Man (1977), came what is widely regarded as Wohlfäht and Harmony's seminal output. The director returned to a generic format and made use of its conventions to challenge expectation. The film pokes gentle fun at establishment figures and, early in the movie, the medical fraternity is lampooned. Here an eminent physician is overrun by young women while examining the female protagonist, disguised as a middle-aged ambassador's wife. The score purposefully eschews the humour and provides a light, almost perfunctory, mood.