''Exit Sunset Boulevard'' is a 1980

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written and directed by

Bastian Clevé Bastian Clevé (born 1 January 1950, in Munich), is a German filmmaker and producer. He is Professor and Head of the Film Production-Department at the Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg in Ludwigsburg, Germany. Biography Clevé grew up in Hamburg. ...

and starring Rüdiger Kuhlbrodt and

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, and as guest Elke Sommer. The film takes its name from

Sunset Boulevard Sunset Boulevard is a boulevard in the central and western part of Los Angeles, California, that stretches from the Pacific Coast Highway in Pacific Palisades east to Figueroa Street in Downtown Los Angeles. It is a major thoroughfare in ...

Plot

A German man (Rüdiger Kuhlbrodt) travels to

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to claim an inheritance, but discovers it is tied up in property in the desert. He tries to set himself up there, but he soon finds himself overwhelmed by the American way of life and begins to suffer a mental breakdown.BFI.org
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* 1980 films 1980 drama films German drama films West German films English-language German films Films set in California 1980s German films {{1980s-Germany-film-stub