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It All Started So Gaily
1944 5.4 (5 votes) 1h 30m
Genres
Comedy
Production Companies
Bavaria-Filmkunst Verleih

It All Started So Gaily (Es fing so harmlos an)

Overview

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.

Key Crew

Director: Theo Lingen

Screenplay: Franz Gribitz, Theo Lingen

Director of Photography: Erich Claunigk

Top Cast

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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