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Pension Schöller (1960)

Pension Schöller poster
Directed by
Georg Jacoby
Genre
comedy film
Country
Germany
Runtime
1h 32m
Rating
7.5 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A comedy about guests and staff in a quirky boarding house. Misunderstandings and eccentric characters drive the antics.

lightheartedwhimsicalplayfuldatedsillyenergeticfarce-likenostalgic

What happens

Pension Schöller is a 1960 West German comedy film directed by Georg Jacoby and starring Theo Lingen, Christa Williams and Rudolf Vogel. It is an adaptation of the 1890 play Pension Schöller by Wilhelm Jacoby and Carl Laufs. Georg Jacoby was Wilhem's son, and made three film adaptation of his father's best known play in 1930, 1952 and 1960. It was shot at the Wandsbek Studios in Hamburg. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Albrecht Becker and Herbert Kirchhoff. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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