Just a Gigolo

Just a Gigolo is a 1978 West German drama film directed by David Hemmings and starring David Bowie. Set in post-World War I Berlin, it also features Sydne Rome, Kim Novak and Marlene Dietrich in her final film role. The film was panned by critics and audiences; this led Bowie to quip that it was "my 32 Elvis Presley movies rolled into one". Plot A Prussian officer (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". Cast David Bowie as Paul Ambrosius von Przygodski Sydne Rome as Cilly Kim Novak as Helga von Kaiserling David Hemmings as Captain Hermann Kraft Maria Schell as Frau von Przygodski Curd Jürgens as Prince Marlene Dietrich as Baroness von Semering Erika Pluhar as Eva Hilde Weissner as Aunt Hilda Werner Pochath as Otto Rudolf Schündler as Oberst Gustav von Przygodski Evelyn Künneke as Frau Aeckerle