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Just a Gigolo is a film of genre Drama directed by David Hemmings released in USA on 1 may 1981 with David Bowie

Just a Gigolo (1978)

Just a Gigolo
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Released in USA 1 may 1981
Length 1h58
Directed by
Genres Drama
Rating54% 2.7002952.7002952.7002952.7002952.700295

Just a Gigolo (Schöner Gigolo, armer Gigolo) is a German 1978 film directed by David Hemmings and starring David Bowie. Set in post-World War I Berlin, it also featured Sydne Rome, Kim Novak and, in her last screen appearance, Marlene Dietrich. The hostile reception the film received led Bowie to quip that it was "my 32 Elvis Presley movies rolled into one".

Synopsis

A Prussian officer (David Bowie) returns home to Berlin following the end of the Great War. Unable to find employment elsewhere, he works as a gigolo in a brothel run by the Baroness (Marlene Dietrich). He is eventually killed in street fighting between Nazis and Communists. Both sides claim his body but the Nazis succeed in capturing it and bury him with honours, "a hero to a cause he did not support".

Actors

David Bowie

(Paul Ambrosius von Przygodski)Sydne Rome

(Cilly)Kim Novak

(Helga von Kaiserling)Maria Schell

(Pauls Mutti Frau von Przygodski)Curd Jürgens

(Prince)
And :
David Hemmings
Marlene Dietrich
Erika Pluhar
Werner Pochath
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