The Gentlemen (1965 film)

1965 film

The Gentlemen

Directed by|

* Rolf Thiele
* Alfred Weidenmann
* Franz Seitz

Written by|

* Paul Hengge [de]
* Kurt Heuser
* Joe Lederer [de; fr]
* Gregor von Rezzori
* Franz Seitz

Based on| Die Herren (novel)
by Angelika Schrobsdorff
Produced by| Franz Seitz
Starring|

* Paul Hubschmid
* Mario Adorf
* Susy Andersen

Cinematography| Wolf Wirth [de]
Edited by| Alexandra Anatra [de]
Music by| Bernd Kampka [de]

Production
company

Franz Seitz Filmproduktion

Distributed by| Nora-Filmverleih

Release date

* 25 August 1965 (1965-8-25)

Running time

| 110 minutes
Country| West Germany
Language| German

The Gentlemen (German: Die Herren) is a 1965 West German comedy-drama film directed by Franz Seitz, Rolf Thiele and Alfred Weidenmann and starring Paul Hubschmid, Mario Adorf, and Susy Andersen.[1]

## Plot

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The focus of the plot is the young journalist Evelyne. The young lady already has a multi-faceted past and has gotten to know quite a few men – from simple boys to extremely wealthy manufacturers. Bored with her job, at the suggestion of a dynamic publisher named Blech, whom she meets at a conference of writers and intellectuals in Travemünde, she begins to write down her amorous adventures of the past, hoping to create a raunchy literary sensation. She also ends up in bed with Blech. She becomes pregnant by him, but Blech leaves her. In the following episodes, Evelyne looks back on her life and reviews her affairs.

Early on, Evelyne shows herself to be a precocious fruit when she flirts with the slightly older farm boy Boris during a wedding in the country. As a young woman, she begins an affair with a much older colonel in the US occupying army. This love affair also falls apart, and Evelyne ends up in the arms of a jaded young aristocrat, a veritable count. But this affair also has no future, and so the blonde siren finally flees into the arms and bed of the staid Swiss watch manufacturer Pflügeli. Although he is willing and a true gentleman, his sexual virility leaves much to be desired.

## Cast

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* Paul Hubschmid as Pflügeli

...and, in alphabetical order:

* Mario Adorf as Verleger Blech, episode 'Die Intellektuellen'
* Susy Andersen as Eveline, episodes 'Die Bauern', 'Die Intellektuellen'
* Balduin Baas as Meyberg
* Ulrich Beiger as Grischa, episode 'Die Bauern'
* Bruno Dietrich [de] as Boris, episode 'Die Bauern'
* Astrid Frank as Das Mädchen Eveline
* Benno Hoffmann [de; es]
* Robert Hoffmann
* Herbert Hübner as Graf, episode 'Die Intellektuellen'
* Letícia Román as Evelines, episodes 'Die Intellektuellen', 'Die Soldaten'
* Peter van Eyck as Colonel, episode 'Die Soldaten'
* Gregor von Rezzori as Onkel Grischa
* Friedrich von Thun as Graf, episode 'Die Intellektuellen'
* Adelin Wagner [de] as Claudia
* Fred Williams

## References

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1. ^ Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. p. 472\. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.

## External links

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* The Gentlemen at IMDb

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Films directed by Rolf Thiele

* The Day Before the Wedding (1952)
* Beloved Life (1953)
* She (1954)
* The Barrings (1955)
* Mamitschka (1955)
* El Hakim (1957)
* Scandal in Bad Ischl (1957)
* The Mad Bomberg (1957)
* Rosemary (1958)
* Eva (1958)
* Labyrinth (1959)
* You Don't Shoot at Angels (1960)
* Beloved Augustin (1960)
* Lulu (1962)
* Venusberg (1963)
* Tonio Kröger (1964)
* The Gentlemen (1965)
* Who Wants to Sleep? (1965)
* The Blood of the Walsungs (1965)
* Once a Greek (1966)
* The New Adventures of Snow White (1969)
* Slap in the Face (1970)
* Come to Vienna, I'll Show You Something! (1970)
* Temptation in the Summer Wind (1972)
* Rosemary's Daughter (1976)
* Women in Hospital (1977)

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Films directed by Alfred Weidenmann

* I and You (1953)
* Canaris (1954)
* Heaven Is Never Booked Up (1955)
* Alibi (1955)
* Kitty and the Great Big World (1956)
* Der Stern von Afrika (1957)
* Scampolo (1958)
* The Buddenbrooks (1959)
* Boomerang (1960)
* Sacred Waters (1960)
* Adorable Julia (1962)
* Only a Woman (1962)
* Condemned to Sin (1964)
* The Gentlemen (1965)
* Who Wants to Sleep? (1965)
* Shots in Threequarter Time (1965)
* I Am Looking for a Man (1966)
* Maigret and His Greatest Case (1966)
* Under the Roofs of St. Pauli (1970)
* The Bordello (1971)
* The Rider on the White Horse (1978)

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