A Glass of Water (1960)

Original title

Das Glas Wasser

Directed by

Helmut Käutner

Genre

comedy film, musical film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 23m

Rated

12

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A political and romantic comedy set in 1710 London. Characters plot and scheme against the backdrop of the War of the Spanish Succession. A glass of water becomes a key object in the intrigue.

lightheartedplayfultheatricalhistoricalwittyupbeatwhimsicalbright

What happens

A Glass of Water (German: Das Glas Wasser) is a 1960 West German comedy-musical film directed by Helmut Käutner and starring Gustaf Gründgens, Liselotte Pulver and Sabine Sinjen. It was entered into the 10th Berlin International Film Festival. It is an adaptation of the 1842 French play Le verre d'eau by Eugène Scribe and is set in London in 1710 during the War of the Spanish Succession. It was shot at the Wandsbek Studios in Hamburg. The film's sets were designed by the art director Albrecht Becker and Herbert Kirchhoff. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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