Café Oriental is a 1962 German musical comedy film directed by Rudolf Schündler and starring Elke Sommer, Jerome Courtland, Trude Herr, and Bill Ramsey.[1]

Café Oriental
Directed byRudolf Schündler
Written byJanne Furch
Produced by
Starring
CinematographySiegfried Hold
Edited byWaltraut Wischniewsky
Music byGert Wilden
Production
company
Alfa Film
Distributed byDeutsche Filmvertriebs-Gemeinschaft
Release date
  • 16 February 1962 (1962-02-16)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryWest Germany
LanguageGerman

The film's sets were designed by the art directors Paul Markwitz and Wilhelm Vorwerg. It was shot at the Spandau Studios in Berlin.

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Several students at a music college, as well as a waiter and a housekeeper, have made an unusual inheritance, the Café Allotria. The inheritance has only one catch: the café is hopelessly over-indebted. The bailiff is the only permanent guest in the somewhat run-down and boring place.

The motley group of heirs come up with an idea: why not spice up and refurbish the café by offering a music combo that really stirs up the dancing audience? The café will be thoroughly renovated and changed, will be given a Middle Eastern touch and will be called "Café Oriental" from now on. The bailiff, an enthusiastic jazz trumpeter, is also involved. The store soon became a hot spot for music lovers and dance fans.

All the while, love blooms not only between Sylvia, a student of classical music, and Michael, a popular singer, but also between Sylvia's housekeeper Valentine and Bill, the manager.

Cast

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Bibliography

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  • Segrave, Kerry; Martin, Linda (1990). The Continental Actress: European Film Stars of the Postwar Era—Biographies, Criticism, Filmographies, Bibliographies. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. ISBN 978-0-89950-510-7.
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