Schöner Gigolo, armer Gigolo (Just A Gigolo)

Cast

David Bowie
as Paul

Sydne Rome
as Cilly

Kim Novak
as Helga

Sydney Rome

David Hemmings
as Captain Kraft

Marlene Dietrich
as Baroness von Semering

Curt Jurgens

Maria Schell
as Mutti

Curd Jürgens
as Prince

Erika Pluhar
as Eva

Hilde Weissner
as Aunt Hilda

Werner Pochath
as Otto

Bela Erny
as Von Lipzig

Friedhelm Lehmann
as Von Muller

Rainer Hunold
as Lothar

Evelyn Künneke
as Frau Aeckerle

Karin Hardt
as Frau Uexkull

Gudrun Genest
as Frau von Putzdorf

Ursula Heyer
as Greta

Christiane Maybach
as Gilda

Martin Hirthe
as Director

Reinhard Kolldehoff
as Agent

Günter Meisner
as Drunken Worker

Peter Schlesinger
as First man in bath

Rudolf Schündler
as Gustav

Maria Schneider

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Audience Reviews for Schöner Gigolo, armer Gigolo (Just A Gigolo)

• Jun 22, 2013

  Directed by David Hemmings (star of "Blow Up"), "Just a Gigolo" is mostly just a curiosity for David Bowie fanatics. This notorious flop was filmed during Bowie's late-70s period in Berlin, and he's looking as traditionally handsome as he ever looked in younger days, so his fetishists will drool. The premise actually isn't so different from "The Graduate" -- a malleable naif rejoins the real world (in this case, post-WWI rather than post-college) and gets dubious advice from everyone about what he should do next. In this case, he ends up working as a dancehall gigolo. Except the script is an utter snooze. This slack tale is neither funny nor dramatic, and the plot is just as aimless as Bowie's character. One bonus: The powerhouse cast includes Curt Jurgens, Maria Schell, Kim Novak and (in her final appearance) Marlene Dietrich. She only has two brief scenes, but it's undeniably haunting to see her sign off her career by singing "...and life goes on without me." Hemmings has a small role as a Nazi organizer, and Sydne Rome scores points as a sexy torch singer who suddenly exits the movie about halfway through (did she leave to work on a better project?). Bowie himself does not perform onscreen, but did write a trivial street-performer's song that appears early in the action.
  

  Eric B Super Reviewer

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