''House of Pleasure'' (German: ''Frau Wirtin hat auch eine Nichte'', Italian: ''Il trionfo della casta Susanna'') is a 1969

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directed by

Franz Antel Franz Antel (28 June 1913 – 11 August 2007) was a veteran Austrian filmmaker. Born in Vienna, Antel worked mainly as a film producer in the interwar years. After World War II, he began writing and directing films on a large scale. In the ...

and starring

Teri Tordai Teri Tordai (born 28 December 1941) is a Hungarian actress. She has appeared in a large number of European films, including a number of costume films made in the late 1960s and early 1970s, especially '' Frau Wirtin'' series of Franz Antel, wh ...

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and Margaret Lee. It is the third in the series of films which began with ''

The Sweet Sins of Sexy Susan ''The Sweet Sins of Sexy Susan'' (Austrian release: ''Susanne, die Wirtin von der Lahn'', West German release: ''Die Wirtin von der Lahn'') is a 1967 Austrian costume drama-sex comedy film directed by Franz Antel. Background Kurt Nachmann and Fra ...

'' (1967).Von Dassanowsky p.190

Cast

as Wirtin von der Lahn / Sexy Susan / Susanne Delberg *

as Baron von Ambras * Margaret Lee as Pauline Borghese *

Karl Michael Vogler Karl Michael Vogler (28 August 1928 – 9 June 2009) was a German actor, probably best known for his appearances in several big-budget English language films. In ''The Blue Max'' (1966), he co-starred with George Peppard and Ursula Andress as the ...

as Prince Borghese *

Harald Leipnitz Harald Leipnitz (22 April 1926 – 21 November 2000) was a German actor, who was born in Wuppertal and died in Munich of lung cancer. Filmography *1961: '' The Big Show'' (Uncredited) *1963: ', as Wolfgang Spitz *1963: ', as Pedro *1964: ''The ...

as Ferdinand *

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as Ambassador Bulakieff *

Heinrich Schweiger Heinrich Schweiger (23 July 1931 – 14 July 2009) was an Austrian film and stage actor who played leading roles at the Burgtheater on the Ring beginning in 1949. Among the plays in which he starred were Schiller's ''Don Carlos'', Shakespeare ...

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as Waltchmaker Bobinet *

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as Conte Lombardini *

Edwige Fenech Edwige Fenech (, ; born 24 December 1948) is an Algerian-born Maltese-Sicilian actress and film producer. She is mostly known as the star of a series of ''commedia sexy all'italiana'' and ''giallo'' films released in the 1970s, which turned her ...

as Rosalie Bobinet *

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as Bertha *

Judith Dornys Judith Dornys was a Hungarian-born Canadian dancer and film actress. Selected filmography * ''Ramona (1961 film), Ramona'' (1961) * ''The Curse of the Hidden Vault'' (1964) * ''Call of the Forest (1965 film), Call of the Forest'' (1965) * ''The Sw ...

as Dorine *

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Sissy Löwinger Sissy Löwinger (22 June 1941 – 25 September 2011) was an Austrian actress, director and theatre manager. She was the daughter of Austrian actors Liesl and Paul Löwinger. She worked in public relations and dramaturgy for the family theatr ...

as Serafine * Annamária Szilvássy as Agathe *

Erich Nikowitz The given name Eric, Erich, Erikk, Erik, Erick, or Eirik is derived from the Old Norse name ''Eiríkr'' (or ''Eríkr'' in Old East Norse due to monophthongization). The first element, ''ei-'' may be derived from the older Proto-Norse ''* ain ...

as Waldeshain *

Franz Muxeneder Franz Muxeneder (19 October 1920 - 3 January 1988) was an Austrian actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1948 to 1987. Muxeneder is best known in Great Britain for his part in the Yugoslav-German television series ''The White Hor ...

as Pumpernickel *

Erich Padalewski Erich Padalewski (1930–2018) was an Austrian stage, film and television actor.Schliesser & Moser p.83 Selected filmography * '' Dance with Me Into the Morning'' (1962) * ''Our Crazy Nieces'' (1963) * ''Don't Fool with Me'' (1963) * '' Call of ...

as Officer *

Guido Wieland Guido Wieland (1906–1993) was an Austrian stage, film and television actor.Mitchell p.92 Selected filmography * '' 1. April 2000'' (1952) * ''Adventure in Vienna'' (1952) * ''The Doctor's Secret'' (1955) * ''Scandal in Bad Ischl'' (1957) * ''E ...

* Éva Vadnai as Babushka * György Máday as Fuchsel * Eva Vodickova as Denise

References

Bibliography

* Robert Von Dassanowsky. ''Austrian Cinema: A History''. McFarland, 2005.

External links

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