Women Are Better Diplomats

Women Are Better Diplomats (German: Frauen sind doch bessere Diplomaten) is a 1941 German musical comedy film directed by Georg Jacoby and starring Marika Rökk, Willy Fritsch and Aribert Wäscher. It was based on a novel by Hans Flemming. The film was the first German feature film to be made in colour, and was one of the most expensive films produced during the Third Reich. The film met with a positive public response and was among the most popular German films of the early war years.

A dancer named Marie-Luise Pally (Marika Rökk) is sent on a diplomatic mission to the Frankfurt Parliament in an attempt to stop her uncle's casino in Homburg shutting down. The film is set in the German revolutions of 1848–49.

The production period for Women Are Better Diplomats was both long and expensive, as the production team encountered various difficulties during the making of the film. It took longer to produce than any other Universum Film AG (Ufa) production, with a gap of more than two years between the start of filming in July 1939 and its debut screening in October 1941. The delays prompted the cast to joke that "When the film is done, the war will be over too". These delays also increased the cost of the production. The original budget was 1.45 million RM, but the final production cost was actually 2.4 million RM, making it the thirteenth most expensive film produced during the Third Reich.

Many of the delays in production stemmed from the fact that Women Are Better Diplomats was the first German feature film to be shot in colour. The colour process used was Agfacolor, which had recently been developed as a German alternative to Technicolor. As filming in Agfacolor was still new, frequent improvements were made to the process during the film's production, prompting the re-shooting of scenes to enhance the reproduction of colours. Lead actress Marika Rökk recalled that "If we thought we had finished a scene, some revoltingly gifted technician would come up with an idea for improving it". Outdoor scenes were particularly problematic: one dance scene filmed in Babelsberg Park, for example, had to be re-filmed a number of times due to the grass appearing as blue or red rather than green, depending on the sun's position.