The Zurich Engagement

Name: Die Zürcher Verlobung
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1957-04-16
Duration: 1 h 46 min
Rating: 6.5
Cast: Liselotte Pulver, Paul Hubschmid, Bernhard Wicki

Original title: Die Zürcher Verlobung

1957
1h 46m

IMDb RATING

6.5/10

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Liselotte Pulver, Paul Hubschmid, and Bernhard Wicki in The Zurich Engagement (1957)

Comedy

Juliane Thomas is an ambitious but unemployed young writer. After breaking up with her lover she works at a dentist friend's to make ends meet. One day she instantly falls in love with one o... Read allJuliane Thomas is an ambitious but unemployed young writer. After breaking up with her lover she works at a dentist friend's to make ends meet. One day she instantly falls in love with one of the patients (Jean Berner) and promptly writes a movie script about the encounter in whi... Read allJuliane Thomas is an ambitious but unemployed young writer. After breaking up with her lover she works at a dentist friend's to make ends meet. One day she instantly falls in love with one of the patients (Jean Berner) and promptly writes a movie script about the encounter in which she projects her own fantasies about how things will turn out eventually. By coincidenc... Read all

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IMDb RATING

6.5/10

525

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
The title sequence notes that the screenplay was written "with contributions by the director" - the same phrase is used in the title sequence of the film within the film. Actually, one could say that the whole film is about director "Büffel" contributing to Juliane's screenplay.

Quotes
Mailman: [smelling smoke in Juliane's apartment] How many rooms are burning so far?
Juliane Thomas: No rooms. Only lies.

Connections
Remade as Die Zürcher Verlobung - Drehbuch zur Liebe (2007)

Soundtracks
Ja, ja die Liebe in der Schweiz
Performed by Die Drei Peheiros

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Review

Featured review

10/10

An all time favourite

This has been one of my favourite movies as a child, when they were still showing 1950s-movies on TV. I hadn't seen it for almost 20 years when I recently bought the DVD. I was surprised at how fresh it still felt - the dialogue is very witty, the relations of the characters are realistic (even sex is implied - huch! That in the German 50s!), and the recurring references to writing a screenplay and to German movies of the time are very amusing ("You should have a tame deer in it!"). The movie is carried by the brilliant lead actors - there couldn't have been anyone else than Lilo Pulver to play Juliane, and the contrast between Bernhard Wicki and Paul Hubschmid is the perfect analogy to Bueffel and Berner from Barbara Noacks novel. I'm glad I have it on DVD now.