Schöner Gigolo - Armer Gigolo (Original title)Just a Gigolo (Alternative title)
Date: 1978 (Release)Country: Federal Republic of GermanyDirector: David Hemmings
Synopsis: After the First World War a young shell-shocked Prussian officer returns to Berlin. He finds that the life he knew there has vanished for ever; he cannot adjust to the new times. He drifts along without direction until finally he becomes a gigolo employed by Baroness von Semering.
Genre: War
Subjects: War neuroses, World War I, Aftermath of war, Berlin, Germany (up to 1933)
Releases
Date: 1978Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Eastmancolor - Sound - MonoAspect ratio: 1.66:1Runtime: 147 mins Dialogue (original): English
Date: April 1979Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - SoundAspect ratio: 1.375:1Runtime: 105 mins Length: 9450 FeetDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Tedderwick Ltd.
Date: 1978 (Release)Country: Federal Republic of GermanyDirector: David Hemmings
Synopsis: After the First World War a young shell-shocked Prussian officer returns to Berlin. He finds that the life he knew there has vanished for ever; he cannot adjust to the new times. He drifts along without direction until finally he becomes a gigolo employed by Baroness von Semering.
Genre: War
Subjects: War neuroses, World War I, Aftermath of war, Berlin, Germany (up to 1933)
Releases
Date: 1978Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Eastmancolor - Sound - MonoAspect ratio: 1.66:1Runtime: 147 mins Dialogue (original): English
Date: April 1979Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - SoundAspect ratio: 1.375:1Runtime: 105 mins Length: 9450 FeetDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Tedderwick Ltd.
Credits
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Production Company: Leguan Film, Producer: Rolf Thiele, Unit manager: Axel Bär, Production Manager: Lutz Winter, Production Co-ordinator: Charlotte Läuffer, Production Assistant: Ingrid Windisch, Assistant Director: Eva-Maria Schönecker, Screenplay: Ennio De Concini, Screenplay: Joshua Sinclair, Director of Photography: Charly Steinberger, Special Effects: Erwin Lange, Editor: Alfred Srp, Production Designer: Peter Rothe, Costumes: Max Mago, Costumes: Ingrid Zoré, Make-up: Anthony Clavet, Make-up: Ingrid Thier, Make-up: Alfred Rasche, Make-up: Karin Bauer, Music: Günther Fischer, Choreography: Herbert F. Schubert, Sound Recording: Günther Kortwich
Cast
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David Bowie (Paul von Przygosky), Sydne Rome (Cilly), Kim Novak (Helga), David Hemmings (Captain Hermann Kraft), Maria Schell (Mutti), Curd Jürgens (Prince), Marlene Dietrich (Baroness von Semering), Erika Pluhar (Eva), Hilde Weissner (Aunt Hilda), Werner Pochath (Otto), Rudolf Schündler (Gustav, Paul's father), Evelyn Künnecke (Frau Aeckerle), Friedhelm Lehmann (Major von Müller), Karin Hardt (Frau Uexkull), Bela Erny (Von Lipzig), Gudrun Genest (Frau von Putzdorf), Rainer Hunold (Lothar), Christiane Maybach (Gilda), Martin Hirthe (director), Rene Kolldehoff (Max, Cilly's agent), Ursula Heyer ([Greta]), Günter Meisner ([drunken worker]), Peter Schlesinger ([1st man in the bath])