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It All Started So Gaily
It All Started So Gaily
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  2. It All Started So Gaily

It All Started So Gaily

Original Title: Es fing so harmlos an

1944
1h 30m
Comedy

Status

Released

Release

1944

Runtime

1h 30m

Storyline

Clemens and Bobi, two legation secretaries, are sent on a delicate mission by their minister: it concerns a red portfolio with secret papers, which the minister stuck under a bed mattress and forgot about when he met someone on a rendezvous. And to make things more difficult, the horny minister can't remember which room he left it in. After several incidents in different hotel rooms, neither secretary has found a thing. There's not a trace of the portfolio; but Clemens is more interested in Annette, the young lady in one of the hotel beds, than in the portfolio. He forgets his mission and can think only of her. Boni, in the meantime, has found his way into a room, where Olivia is staying and sees a red, leather folder there. But the woman throws him out in short order.

Score Distribution

Details

Status
Released
Runtime
1h 30m
Oct 20, 1944
Languages
German
Director
Theo Lingen
Theo Lingen
Production
Bavaria-Filmkunst Verleih
Bavaria-Filmkunst Verleih
Production Countries
Germany

Top Cast

6 Cast Members

Johannes Heesters

Johannes Heesters

Clemens Verné

Theo Lingen

Theo Lingen

Bonifatius 'Boni' Zeck

Christl Mardayn

Christl Mardayn

Olivia

Inge List

Annette

Will Dohm

Will Dohm

Alexander Pilat Ravestyn

Max Gülstorff

Max Gülstorff

Hotelarzt

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