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1978 West Germany film

Just a Gigolo (German: Schöner Gigolo, armer Gigolo, lit. 'Beautiful Gigolo, Poor Gigolo') is a 1978 West German drama film directed by David Hemmings and starring David Bowie.

Set in post-World War I Berlin, it also features Sydne Rome, Kim Novak and Marlene Dietrich in her final film role.

The film was panned by critics and audiences; this led Bowie to quip that it was "my 32 Elvis Presleymovies rolled into one".^[1]

Plot

A Prussian officer returns home to Berlin following the end of the Great War.

Unable to find employment elsewhere, he works as a gigolo in a brothel run by the Baroness. He is eventually killed in street fighting between Nazis and Communists. Both sides claim his body but the Nazis succeed in capturing it and bury him with honours, "a hero to a cause he did not support".

Cast

Production

Around the time of its release, David Hemmings said that Just a Gigolo was inten