Gigoló

Gigoló (1978)

Schöner Gigolo, armer Gigolo

Berlín, años 20. Cuando el joven coronel Paul von Przygodski (David Bowie) regresa de la guerra, tras pasar varios meses en coma, se da cuenta de que el mundo que conocía ha cambiado drásticamente. Para él, que pertenece a una familia aristocrática, será muy duro ver su casa convertida en una pensión y tener que buscar algún trabajo para ayudar económicamente a los suyos. Después de un periodo de aturdimiento y desorientación, una noche conoce por azar a la baronesa von Semering (Marlene Dietrich), que regenta un club de gigolós.

Fecha de estreno
1978-11-16
TMDB
5.0 / 10 (34)
Duración
1 h 41 min
Géneros
Drama
Director
David Hemmings

Reparto

Curiosidades

Just a 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.

Production

Around the time of its release, David Hemmings said that Just a Gigolo was intended to be "highly ironic, tongue-in-cheek, about the period". Marlene Dietrich was persuaded to come out of retirement to make the film, reportedly receiving $250,000 for two days' shooting.

It was Bowie's first movie role after Nicolas Roeg's The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976). As Roeg's film had played upon Bowie's earlier identification with science fiction and alienness, so Just a Gigolo fitted his interest in pre-war Berlin, pricked by meeting Christopher Isherwood, whose Goodbye to Berlin had inspired the musical Cabaret.

The singer has variously claimed that he took the role "as a favour to Hemmings", who at the time was also planning to produce a documentary of Bowie's 1978 concert tour, and because "Marlene Dietrich was dangled in front of me". The two stars never met, Dietrich played her brief part in Paris, where she lived, with the result simply being cut into Bowie's scenes that were shot, along with the rest of the film, in Berlin.

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