The Gentlemen (1965 film)

The Gentlemen (German: Die Herren) is a 1965 West German comedy-drama film directed by Franz Seitz, Rolf Thiele and Alfred Weidenmann and starring Paul Hubschmid, Mario Adorf, and Susy Andersen.

The Gentlemen
Directed by	Rolf Thiele Alfred Weidenmann Franz Seitz
Written by	Paul Hengge Kurt Heuser Joe Lederer Gregor von Rezzori Franz Seitz
Based on	Die Herren (novel) by Angelika Schrobsdorff
Produced by	Franz Seitz
Starring	Paul Hubschmid Mario Adorf Susy Andersen
Cinematography	Wolf Wirth
Edited by	Alexandra Anatra
Music by	Bernd Kampka
Production company	Franz Seitz Filmproduktion
Distributed by	Nora-Filmverleih
Release date	25 August 1965 (1965-08-25)
Running time	110 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

Plot

The focus of the plot is the young journalist Evelyne. The young lady already has a multi-faceted past and has gotten to know quite a few men – from simple boys to extremely wealthy manufacturers. Bored with her job, at the suggestion of a dynamic publisher named Blech, whom she meets at a conference of writers and intellectuals in Travemünde, she begins to write down her amorous adventures of the past, hoping to create a raunchy literary sensation. She also ends up in bed with Blech. She becomes pregnant by him, but Blech leaves her. In the following episodes, Evelyne looks back on her life and reviews her affairs.

Early on, Evelyne shows herself to be a precocious fruit when she flirts with the slightly older farm boy Boris during a wedding in the country. As a young woman, she begins an affair with a much older colonel in the US occupying army. This love affair also falls apart, and Evelyne ends up in the arms of a jaded young aristocrat, a veritable count. But this affair also has no future, and so the blonde siren finally flees into the arms and bed of the staid Swiss watch manufacturer Pflügeli. Although he is willing and a true gentleman, his sexual virility leaves much to be desired.

Cast

• Paul Hubschmid as Pflügeli

...and, in alphabetical order:

• Mario Adorf as Verleger Blech, episode 'Die Intellektuellen'
• Susy Andersen as Eveline, episodes 'Die Bauern', 'Die Intellektuellen'
• Balduin Baas as Meyberg
• Ulrich Beiger as Grischa, episode 'Die Bauern'
• Bruno Dietrich as Boris, episode 'Die Bauern'
• Astrid Frank as Das Mädchen Eveline
• Benno Hoffmann
• Robert Hoffmann
• Herbert Hübner as Graf, episode 'Die Intellektuellen'
• Letícia Román as Evelines, episodes 'Die Intellektuellen', 'Die Soldaten'
• Peter van Eyck as Colonel, episode 'Die Soldaten'
• Gregor von Rezzori as Onkel Grischa
• Friedrich von Thun as Graf, episode 'Die Intellektuellen'
• Adelin Wagner as Claudia
• Fred Williams

External links

• The Gentlemen at IMDb