The Turkish Cucumbers
1962 film
- Peter Loos
- Rolf Olsen
- Gunther Philipp
- Gunther Philipp
- Oskar Sima
- Susi Nicoletti
Production
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Bavaria Film
Release date
- 22 March 1962 (1962-03-22)
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The Turkish Cucumbers (German: Die türkischen Gurken) is a 1962 West German comedy film directed by Rolf Olsen and starring Gunther Philipp, Oskar Sima and Susi Nicoletti.[1]
The film's sets were designed by the art directors Hertha Hareiter and Otto Pischinger. It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich.
Synopsis
A fruit and vegetable wholesaler who does a great deal of business with the Middle East is disturbed to discover that one of his clients has gifted him a harem. He tries to keep this secret from his wife by pretending that the new arrivals are Turkish cucumbers, but she becomes increasingly suspicious.
Cast
- Gunther Philipp as Siegfried König, Zahnarzt
- Oskar Sima as Oskar Schnabel
- Susi Nicoletti as Susanne, seine Gattin
- Ruth Stephan as Ruthlinde, beider Tochter
- Walter Gross as Theo-Maria Neumann
- Hubert von Meyerinck as Rubin y Soliman
- Ernst Waldbrunn as Pospischil, Detektiv
- Willy Schultes as Mittermeyer
- Monica Berger as Suleika, Haremsdame
- Dora Carras as Rosa, Dienstmädchen
- Sergio Casmai as Niki, Ponys Verehrer
- Gabriele Clonisch as Pony König
- Angela Hartmann as Yasmina, Haremsdame
- Harry Hertzsch as Standesbeamter
- Angelina Monti as Faida, Haremsdame
- Charly Mueller as Engelberg Grün, Fabrikant
- Ilse Petri as Petra, seine Frau
- Edith Peters as Mahila, Haremsdame
- Barbro Svensson as Lill
- Brigitte Wentzel as Pamina, Haremsdame
References
- ^ Ingraham p.149
Bibliography
- Chrys Ingraham. White Weddings: Romancing Heterosexuality in Popular Culture. Routledge, 1999.
External links
- The Turkish Cucumbers at IMDb
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Films directed by Rolf Olsen
- Our Crazy Aunts (1961)
- The Turkish Cucumbers (1962)
- Our Crazy Nieces (1963)
- Our Crazy Aunts in the South Seas (1964)
- The Last Ride to Santa Cruz (1964)
- Legend of a Gunfighter (1964)
- When Night Falls on the Reeperbahn (1967)
- The Doctor of St. Pauli (1968)
- On the Reeperbahn at Half Past Midnight (1969)
- That Can't Shake Our Willi! (1970)
- Hotel by the Hour (1970)
- The Priest of St. Pauli (1970)
- Bloody Friday (1972)
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