''She'' (german: Sie) is a 1954 West German
romantic comedy
Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a subgenre of comedy and slice of life fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount most obstacles. In a typica ...
film directed by
Rolf Thiele
Rolf Thiele (7 March 1918 – 9 October 1994) was a German film director, film producer, producer and screenwriter. He directed 42 films between 1951 and 1977. He was born in Ústí nad Labem, Prödlitz, then in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. ...
and starring
Marina Vlady
Marina Vlady (born 10 May 1938) is a French actress.
Biography
Vlady was born in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine to White Russian immigrant parents. Her father was an opera singer and her mother was a dancer. Her sisters, now all deceased, were the act ...
,
Walter Giller
Walter Giller (23 August 1927 – 15 December 2011) was a German actor. He was very successful in the 1950s and 1960s, when he was often seen as a comedic leading man. One of his most successful and more serious roles was in ''Roses for the Pros ...
, and
Nadja Tiller
Nadja Tiller (born 16 March 1929 in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian actress. She was one of the most popular German-speaking actresses of international films of the 1950s and 1960s.
Biography
Nadja Tiller, daughter of actor Anton Tiller of Vie ...
.
The film's sets were designed by the
art director
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It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...
Walter Haag
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Selected filmography
* ''The Private Life of Louis XIV'' (19 ...
. It was made at
Göttingen Studios
The Göttingen Studios were film studios located in the German city of Göttingen. The studios were established in 1948 on a site that had previously been used as an aeroplane hangar on the outskirts of Göttingen. The studios were founded by the ...
and
on location in several sites including
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...
.
Plot
In Paris a Hungarian
illustrator
An illustrator is an artist who specializes in enhancing writing or elucidating concepts by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text or idea. The illustration may be intended to clarify complicat ...
becomes engaged to Céline, the seventeen-year-old daughter of the owner of the
newspaper
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Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports a ...
at which he works. They have to wait four years until she is legally able to marry him. In the meantime he seems to have become attracted to a young Italian woman.
Cast
References
External links
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1954 romantic comedy films
German romantic comedy films
West German films
Films directed by Rolf Thiele
Films set in Paris
Films shot in Paris
Films based on Hungarian novels
German black-and-white films
1950s German-language films
1950s German films
Films shot at Göttingen Studios
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