The Zurich Engagement

The Zurich Engagement
Directed by	Helmut Käutner
Produced by	Gyula Trebitsch
Written by	Barbara Noack (novel) Heinz Pauck Helmut Käutner
Starring	Liselotte Pulver Paul Hubschmid Bernhard Wicki Wolfgang Lukschy
Music by	Michael Jary
Cinematography	Heinz Pehlke
Edited by	Klaus Dudenhöfer
Production company	Gyula-Trebitsch-Film
Distributed by	Europa Film
Release dates	16 April 1957
Running time	106 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

The Zurich 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.^[1] 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.

Partial cast

• Liselotte Pulver as Juliane Thomas
• Paul Hubschmid as Dr. Jean Berner
• Bernhard Wicki as Paul Frank
• Wolfgang Lukschy as Jürgen Kolbe
• Roland Kaiser as Helge Frank / Pips
• Rudolf Platte as Edgar Stephan
• Werner Finck as Dr. Julius Wayer
• Erwin Linder as Veit Lauffer
• Traute Carlsen as Tante Marie Berner
• Gisela Peltzer as Lucie Krämer
• Peter Franck as Film Producer, Dr. Krämer
• Hans Hermann Schaufuß as Old Man from Heidelberg
• Maria Sebaldt as Grace, American Tourist
• Marianne Hediger as Heidi Lauffer
• Sibylle von Gymnich as Rosi Berner
• Elsbeth Gmür as Maria Berner
• Anny Ondra as Herself
• Max Schmeling as Himself
• Sonja Ziemann as Herself

References

1. Reimer & Reimer p.233

Bibliography

• Reimer, Robert C. & Reimer, Carol J. The A to Z of German Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2010.

External links

• The Zurich Engagement at the Internet Movie Database