''The Turkish Cucumbers'' (German: ''Die türkischen Gurken'') is a 1962 West German

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directed by Rolf Olsen and starring

Gunther Philipp Gunther Philipp (8 June 1918 – 2 October 2003) was an Austrian film actor, physician and swimmer. From 1949 to 2002 he appeared as an actor in 147 movies for cinema and television, mainly in comic roles. As an author, Philipp wrote 21 film scr ...

Oskar Sima Oskar Sima (31 July 1896 – 24 June 1969) was an Austrian actor who is best remembered for appearing in supporting roles in countless comedy films from the 1930s to the 1960s. Born in Hohenau an der March, Lower Austria, Sima attended high sch ...

and

Susi Nicoletti Susi Nicoletti (3 September 1918 – 5 June 2005) was a Bavarian-born actress best remembered today for over 100 supporting roles mostly in comedy films. She was born as Susanne Emilie Luise Adele Habersack in Munich, but spent most of her childh ...

.Ingraham p.149 The film's sets were designed by the

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Hertha Hareiter Hertha Hareiter (1923 - 2015) was an Austrian art director.Bolam & Bolam p.158 She designed the sets for a number of films in the postwar years. She was married to the fellow set designer Otto Pischinger and often collaborated with him. Selected ...

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Otto Pischinger Otto Pischinger (1919–1976) was an Austrian art director who designed the sets for a large number of films during his career. In 1955 he worked on ''The Last Ten Days''.Silberman p.243 He was married to Hertha Hareiter, also an art director, unt ...

. It was shot at the

Bavaria Studios Bavaria Studios are film production studios located in Munich, the capital of the region of Bavaria in Germany, and a subsidiary of Bavaria Film. History The studios were constructed in the suburb of Geiselgasteig in 1919 shortly after the Firs ...

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ...

Synopsis

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who does a great deal of business with the

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is disturbed to discover that one of his clients has gifted him a

harem Harem (Persian: حرمسرا ''haramsarā'', ar, حَرِيمٌ ''ḥarīm'', "a sacred inviolable place; harem; female members of the family") refers to domestic spaces that are reserved for the women of the house in a Muslim family. A hare ...

. He tries to keep this secret from his wife by pretending that the new arrivals are Turkish cucumbers, but she becomes increasingly suspicious.

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References

Bibliography

* Chrys Ingraham. ''White Weddings: Romancing Heterosexuality in Popular Culture''. Routledge, 1999.

External links

* 1962 films 1962 comedy films German comedy films West German films 1960s German-language films Films directed by Rolf Olsen Bavaria Film films Films shot at Bavaria Studios 1960s German films {{1960s-Germany-film-stub