Café Oriental

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Café Oriental
Cafe Oriental.jpg
Directed by Rudolf Schündler
Written by Janne Furch
Produced by
Starring
Cinematography Siegfried Hold
Edited by Waltraut Wischniewsky
Music by Gert Wilden
Production
company
Alfa Film
Distributed byDeutsche Filmvertriebs-Gemeinschaft
Release date
  • 16 February 1962 (1962-02-16)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryWest Germany
LanguageGerman

Café Oriental is a 1962 German musical comedy film directed by Rudolf Schündler and starring Elke Sommer, Jerome Courtland, Trude Herr, and Bill Ramsey. [1]

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The film's sets were designed by the art directors Paul Markwitz and Wilhelm Vorwerg. It was shot at the Spandau Studios in Berlin.

Plot

Several students at a music college, as well as a waiter and a housekeeper, have made an unusual inheritance, the Café Allotria. The inheritance has only one catch: the café is hopelessly over-indebted. The bailiff is the only permanent guest in the somewhat run-down and boring place.

The motley group of heirs come up with an idea: why not spice up and refurbish the café by offering a music combo that really stirs up the dancing audience? The café will be thoroughly renovated and changed, will be given a Middle Eastern touch and will be called "Café Oriental" from now on. The bailiff, an enthusiastic jazz trumpeter, is also involved. The store soon became a hot spot for music lovers and dance fans.

All the while, love blooms not only between Sylvia, a student of classical music, and Michael, a popular singer, but also between Sylvia's housekeeper Valentine and Bill, the manager.

Cast

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