Just a Gigolo

Just a Gigolo

1978 · 147 min · DE · R · 4.8 (20 votes)
Dir. David Hemmings · Starring David Bowie, Kim Novak, Marlene Dietrich, Maria Schell, Curd Jürgens, Erika Pluhar · Music Günther Fischer
Drama

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.

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A somber, decadent portrait of post-war ennui. It feels like a smoky, dimly lit room where lost souls grapple with their changing world and desperate measures. A melancholic descent into survival and gilded cages.

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