Schöner Gigolo, armer Gigolo (also known as Just a Gigolo) is a 1978 film directed by David Hemmings and starring David Bowie. Set in post-World War I Berlin, it also featured Sydne Rome, Kim Novak and, in her last screen appearance, Marlene Dietrich. The hostile reception accorded the film led Bowie to quip that it was "my 32 Elvis Presley movies rolled into one".
A Prussian soldier (David Bowie) returns home to Berlin following the end of the G...
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Schöner Gigolo, armer Gigolo (also known as Just a Gigolo) is a 1978 film directed by David Hemmings and starring David Bowie. Set in post-World War I Berlin, it also featured Sydne Rome, Kim Novak and, in her last screen appearance, Marlene Dietrich. The hostile reception accorded the film led Bowie to quip that it was "my 32 Elvis Presley movies rolled into one".
A Prussian soldier (David Bowie) returns home to Berlin following the end of the Great War. Unable to find employment elsewhere, he works as a gigolo in a brothel run by the Baroness (Marlene Dietrich). He is eventually killed in street fighting between Nazis and Communists. Both sides claim his body but the Nazis succeed in capturing it and bury him with honours, "a hero to a cause he did not support".
Around the time of its release, David Hemmings said that Just a Gigolo was intended to be "highly ironic, tongue-in-cheek, about the period". Marlene Dietrich was persuaded to come out of retirement to make the film,...
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