After World War I, a war hero returns to Berlin to find that there's no place for him--he has no skills other than what he learned in the army, and can only find menial, low-paying jobs. He decides to become a gigolo to lonely rich women.
David Bowie
as Paul Ambrosius von Przygodski
Kim Novak
as Helga von Kaiserling
Marlene Dietrich
as Baroness von Semering
Maria Schell
as Pauls Mutti Frau von Przygodski
Curd Jürgens
as Prince
Erika Pluhar
as Eva
David Hemmings
as Captain Hermann Kraft
Sydne Rome
as Cilly
Werner Pochath
as Otto
Rudolf Schündler
as Oberst Gustav von Przygodski
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When the fastidious "Lt. Paul Przygodski" (David Bowie) returns to Berlin society after the end of the Great War, he finds that things have profoundly changed and that his skills - such as they are - are not going to help him make much of a living. What he does have, though, is looks. He can easily ...