The Zurich Engagement (1957)

Name: The Zurich Engagement
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Released: 1957-04-16

1h 46m

Running Time

Plot.

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..

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Details.

Release Date
April 16, 1957

Original Name
Die Zürcher Verlobung

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 46m

Genres
Romance Comedy

Last updated: 2023-12-27

Wiki.

The Zürich Engagement (German: Die Zürcher Verlobung) is a 1957 West German comedy film directed by Helmut Käutner and starring Liselotte Pulver, Paul Hubschmid, and Bernhard Wicki. A young woman working at a dentist's office falls in love with one of the patients. She writes down her fantasies about him, but problems arise when her words are discovered and are turned into a screenplay for a new film. It is also known by the alternative title The Affairs of Julie.

It was shot at the Wandsbek Studios in Hamburg. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Albrecht Becker and Herbert Kirchhoff.