Just a Gigolo (1978 film)

Beautiful Gigolo, Poor Gigolo is a German film from the year 1978. The actor David Hemmings, who also the film role of the homosexual captain force took over, completed the work his directorial debut. The title of the film is identical to the title of a popular hit song of the year in 1929 by Julius Brammer (text) and Leonello Casucci (music), Beautiful Gigolo, Poor Gigolo, which is interpreted in the movie by Marlene Dietrich.

The English actor David Hemmings ( Blow Up ) draws with his first directorial effort - based on Erich Kästner's novel Fabian - a sidelight -like panorama of society of the Weimar Republic. Singer David Bowie leads to an international star cast, which includes Kim Novak, Maria Schell, Sydne Rome and Erika Pluhar. The 77 -year-old Marlene Dietrich is seen as Baroness film after 15 years of abstinence for the last time in a feature film.

Action

The central figure of the human kaleidoscope, Lieutenant Paul Ambrose of Przygodski, a member of the Prussian nobility, is mixed as a young man at the very end of the First World War to the front and - without having fired only once - wounded in an explosion last. Back in Berlin, he is faced with the fact that his family has rented the stately town house to boarders after the loss of their assets. In addition, his mother has taken a job in a " Turkish bath ". The impoverished and uprooted nobles now gives the general's widow Helga access to the Company; the demi-mondaine Eva provides the means for his livelihood available, and his captain urging him to join the NSDAP. The singer Cecily ( Daughter of the board janitor ) to return Germany back and make a career in Hollywood. Paul is Gigolo, " constant companion " of an elderly lady. Cecily marries a German prince. In Berlin, Nazis and Communists fighting in the street. A ricochet meets Paul - he dies.

Reviews

  • Lexicon of international film: Despite the big budgets and impressive Star banns inszenatorisches a disaster: the film degenerates into a muddled, loose style and banal spectacle in which perish even the expensive show values ​​in general irrelevance.

Special

  • Although the film is set in Berlin, was filmed there and financed by the city, came none of the main characters from Berlin - with the exception of Marlene Dietrich, but for her part her exile in Paris did not need to leave.
  • With Günther Fischer, a film composer from the GDR was engaged. The contemporary music played by the British Pasadena Roof Orchestra a.
  • In this film, Lotti Huber has taken an extras role for the first time.
1978 in film Screenplay Irving Caesar Ennio De Concini Joshua Sinclair Rolf Thiele Film score England Communist Party of Germany
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