Homesick for St. Pauli (1963)

Original title

Heimweh nach St. Pauli

Directed by

Werner Jacobs

Genre

drama film, musical film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 42m

Rated

6

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man returns to the St. Pauli district of Hamburg feeling homesick. The film mixes music with drama and follows his experiences there.

nostalgicsentimentalmusicalmelodramaticold-fashionedearthywandering

What happens

Homesick for St. Pauli (German: Heimweh nach St. Pauli) is a 1963 German drama film directed by Werner Jacobs and starring Freddy Quinn, Josef Albrecht and Ullrich Haupt. It was based on a musical by Lotar Olias and Gustav Kampendonk The film was one of the many foreign films that Jayne Mansfield made in the 1960s, after becoming a star in the late 1950s in films like: The Girl Can't Help It (1956) and Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957). The film's sets were designed by the art directors Albrecht Becker and Herbert Kirchhoff. Location shooting took place in New York and Germany. The film was shot in Hamburg in mid-1963. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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