The Zurich Engagement (1957)
Juliane Thomas is an ambitious but unemployed young writer. After breaking up with her lover she works at a dentist friend to make ends meet. One day she instantly falls in love with one of the patients (Jean Berner) and promptly writes a movie script about the encounter in which she projects her own fantasies about how things will turn out eventually. By coincidence this movie script is picked up by a film director who happens to be Berner's closest friend and from then on things become very complicated...
Director: Helmut Käutner
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Liselotte Pulver as Juliane Thomas |
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Paul Hubschmid as Dr. Jean Berner |
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Bernhard Wicki as Paul Frank |
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Wolfgang Lukschy as Jürgen Kolbe |
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Roland Kaiser as Helge 'Pips' Frank |
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Rudolf Platte as Edgar Stephan |
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Werner Finck as Dr. Julius Weyer |
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Maria Sebaldt as Grace |
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Sonja Ziemann as Anna-Maria/Herself |
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Helmut Käutner as Reporter |
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Erich Ponto as Old Man |
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Anny Ondra as Herself |
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Max Schmeling as Himself |
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Erwin Linder as |
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Traute Carlsen as |
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Gisela Peltzer as |
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Hans Hermann Schaufuß as |
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Marianne Hediger as |
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Sybille von Gymnich as |
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Carl Voscherau as |
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Elsbeth Gmür as |
| Directing | Helmut Käutner | Director |
| Writing | Helmut Käutner | Writer |
| Writing | Heinz Pauck | Writer |
| Writing | Barbara Noack | Novel |
| Editing | Klaus Dudenhöfer | Editor |
| Sound | Michael Jary | Music |
| Production | Gyula Trebitsch | Producer |
| Camera | Heinz Pehlke | Director of Photography |