Originally Das Madchen Rosemarie, this German *musical tragedy* has a lot in mon with the Bertold Brecht/Kurt Weill theatrical pieces The Threepenny Opera and The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahoganny; in fact, the music heard throughout was taken from Weill*s backlog. Austrian beauty contest winner Nadja Tiller plays the prostitute **e, based on a real-life call girl whose predilection for blackmailing her high-profile customers ended with her mysterious death in 1957. The film was a*ertised as a *satire,* with the satirical level exemplified by a chorus of capitalist busines**en rhythmically opening and closing their briefcases. The *frivolity* of Rosemary is punctuated by moments of chilling horror, including the film*s bleak denouement.