The Affairs of Julie

Die Zürcher Verlobung

West Germany

1957

106 Min

Color

1.66:1

German

Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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SCR Barbara Noack, Heinz Pauck, Helmut Käutner

CAST Liselotte Pulver, Paul Hubschmid, Bernhard Wicki, Wolfgang Lukschy, Roland Kaiser, Rudolf Platte, Werner Finck, Erwin Linder, Traute Carlsen, Gisela Peltzer, Peter Franck, Hans Hermann, Maria Sebaldt, Marianne Hediger, Sibylle von Gymnich, Carl Voscherau, Ursula Hoeflich, Elsbeth Gmür, Inge Windschild, Anny Ondra, Max Schmeling, Sonja Ziemann

PROD DES Albrecht Becker, Herbert Kirchhoff

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… —IMDb

Director

Helmut Käutner

Helmut Kaeutner was born in 1908 in Duesseldorf and died in 1980 in Italy. He studied German, Art History, Philosophy, Psychology and Theater Studies and was one of the founding members of the cabaret group “Die vier Nachrichter”, which was banned in 1935. Originally working in the theater as an actor and director, he began his film work as a scriptwriter. His directorial debut was with the film Kitty and the World Conference (Kitty und die Weltkonferenz, 1939), but the film was withdrawn by the Nazi government due to its “pro-English tendencies”. His other films include: Kleider machen Leute (1940), Auf Wiedersehen, Franziska! (1941), Anuschka (1942), Romance in a Minor Key (Romanze in Moll, 1943), Great Freedom No. 7 (Grosse Freiheit Nr. 7, 1944), Seven Journeys (In jenen Tagen, 1947), The Original Sin (Der Apfel ist ab, 1948), The Last Bridge (Die letzte Bruecke, 1953) – winner of a German Film Award in 1954, Sky Without Stars (Himmel ohne Sterne, 1955), The Devil’s General (Des… read more