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Quick Info

Rating

6.3/10

Release1957

Runtime1h 46m

StatusReleased

BudgetN/A

RevenueN/A

Production

Gyula-Trebitsch-Film

Movie

The Zurich Engagement

1957

1h 46m

6.3

Comedy

Romance

Synopsis

Juliane Thomas is an ambitious but unemployed young writer. After breaking up with her lover she works at a dentist friend 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 coincidence this movie script is picked up by a film director who happens to be Berner's closest friend and from then on things become very complicated...

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