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directed by

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and starring

Liselotte Pulver Liselotte Pulver (born 11 October 1929), sometimes credited as Lilo Pulver, is a Swiss actress. Pulver was one of the biggest stars of German cinema in the 1950s and 1960s, where she often was cast as a tomboy. She is well known for her hearty a ...

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and

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.Bock & Bergfelder p.11

Synopsis

The secretary of a German factory manager accompanies him on a business trip to

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where she falls in love with a local man.

Partial cast

as Lili Steiner *

as Carlos García-Manzanares y Soler *

as Robert Steckler *

Manolo Morán Manolo Morán (30 December 1905, in Madrid – 27 April 1967, in Alicante) was a Spanish film actor. Selected filmography * ''Carmen fra i rossi'' (1939) - Il capitano Salmeron * ''El huésped del sevillano'' (1940) * '' The Unloved Woman'' ( ...

as Álvarez *

Juanjo Menéndez Juan José Menéndez Gutiérrez de la Torre (15 May 1929 – 7 November 2003) better known as Juanjo Menéndez was a Spanish actor. He appeared in more than 90 films and television shows between 1953 and 1997. He starred in the film ''El La ...

as José * Miguel Gila as Rodríguez *

Mariano Azaña Mariano Azaña (1896–1965) was a Spanish film actor.Soria p.179 Partial filmography * ''El milagro del Cristo de la Vega'' (1941) * ''Primer amor'' (1942) * ''¿Por qué vivir tristes?'' (1942) * ''Todo por ellas'' (1942) * ''Schottis'' (1943) ...

as Manolo *

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as José 'Pepe' de la Vega * Alicia Altabella as Rosita * María Cabo as Marisa * Goyo Lebrero as Guía Madrid by Night *

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as Kronlick *

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as Madre de Carlos (as Ana Mª Custodio) *

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as Propietario bar *

Pedro Rodríguez de Quevedo Pedro is a masculine given name. Pedro is the Spanish, Portuguese, and Galician name for ''Peter''. Its French equivalent is Pierre while its English and Germanic form is Peter. The counterpart patronymic surname of the name Pedro, meaning ...

a s Recepcionista hotel * Carmen Rodríguez as Abuela de Carlos *

Juan Cazalilla ''Juan'' is a given name, the Spanish and Manx versions of ''John''. It is very common in Spain and in other Spanish-speaking communities around the world and in the Philippines, and also (pronounced differently) in the Isle of Man. In Spanish, t ...

as Dependiente tienda confección *

Manuel Arbó Manuel Arbó (18 July 1898 – 25 May 1973) was a Spanish film actor. He appeared in more than 200 films between 1915 and 1970. Selected filmography * '' Drácula'' (1931, Spanish version) * ''There Were Thirteen'' (1931, Spanish-language ...

as Primer hombre en pagar corbata *

Ángel Álvarez Ángel Álvarez (26 September 1906 – 13 December 1983) was a prolific Spanish film actor. He made over 205 film appearances between 1945 and 1982. He is probably best known for his western films of the 1960s and 1970s. He appeared in Spaghe ...

as Guía Don Quijote

References

Bibliography

* Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

* 1963 films 1963 comedy films German comedy films Spanish comedy films West German films 1960s German-language films Films shot in Spain Films directed by Ladislao Vajda Bavaria Film films 1960s German films {{1960s-Germany-film-stub