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Gustav Adolfs Page (1960)

Gustav Adolfs Page poster
Directed by
Rolf Hansen
Genre
drama film, romance film
Country
Germany, Austria
Runtime
1h 33m
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young woman disguises herself as a page boy to serve a Swedish king during the Thirty Years' War. She gets caught up in battles and a romantic entanglement.

historicaldramaticromanticlightheartedadventurousbrisk-pacedvisually period

What happens

Gustav Adolf's Page (German: Gustav Adolfs Page) is a 1960 West German-Austrian historical adventure film directed by Rolf Hansen and starring Liselotte Pulver, Curd Jürgens, and Ellen Schwiers. It is based on the 1882 novel of the same title by Conrad Ferdinand Meyer. It was shot at the Rosenhügel Studios in Vienna and on location in the Bavarian town of Rothenburg ob der Tauber. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Robert Herlth, Leo Metzenbauer and Arno Richter. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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