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Rendezvous In Paris (1982 Film)
''Rendezvous in Paris'' is a 1982 psychological thriller film written and directed by Gabi Kubach, based on the 1935 novel ''Das große Einmaleins'' by Vicki Baum. The film stars Claude Jade, Harald Kuhlmann, Barry Stokes (actor), Barry Stokes and Vérénice Rudolph. Plot In Berlin in 1930, sensitive Evelyne Droste leads a sheltered life married to respectable lawyer Kurt. The children are cared for by a governess and a nanny, and she feels somehow superfluous and unfulfilled on a personal level. But when she meets the American Frank Davies at a party, her passion and vitality return. Evelyn finally agrees to Frank's invitation for a weekend in Paris. But while Evelyn puts her middle-class life on the line, for Frank it is perhaps only an adventure. Cast * Claude Jade as Evelyne Droste * as Kurt Droste * Barry Stokes (actor), Barry Stokes as Frank Davis * as Marianne * Nina Divíšková as Gouvernante at Droste * Marie Horáková as Veronika * Gunther Malzacher as Von Gebhardt * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicki Baum
Hedwig "Vicki" Baum (; he, ויקי באום; January 24, 1888 – August 29, 1960) was an Austrian writer. She is known for the novel ''Menschen im Hotel'' ("People at a Hotel", 1929 — published in English as ''Grand Hotel (novel), Grand Hotel''), one of her first international successes. It was made into a Grand Hotel (1932 film), 1932 film and a Grand Hotel (musical), 1989 Broadway musical. Education and personal life Baum was born in Vienna into a Jewish family. Her mother Mathilde (née Donath) suffered from mental illness, and died of breast cancer when Vicki was still a child. Her father, described as "a tyrannical, hypochondriac" man, was a bank clerk who was killed in 1942 in Novi Sad (present-day Serbia) by soldiers of the Hungarian occupation. She began her artistic career as a musician playing the harp. She studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, Vienna Conservatory and played in the Vienna Concert Society. She went on to perform in Ger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
