The Priest of St. Pauli

1970 film

The Priest of St. Pauli
German film poster
GermanDer Pfarrer von St. Pauli
Directed byRolf Olsen
Written byRolf Olsen
Produced byHeinz Willeg
Starring
CinematographyFranz Xaver Lederle
Edited byRenate Willeg
Music byErwin Halletz
Production
companies
Allianz Filmproduktion
Terra Film
Distributed byConstantin Film
Release date
  • 18 August 1970 (1970-08-18)
Running time
103 minutes
CountryWest Germany
LanguageGerman

The Priest of St. Pauli (German: Der Pfarrer von St. Pauli) is a 1970 West German drama film directed by Rolf Olsen and starring Curd Jürgens. Two years earlier they had made the similarly-themed The Doctor of St. Pauli together.[1]

Plot

A former submarine commander turned priest tends to the inhabitants of St. Pauli, the red light district of Hamburg.

Cast

  • Curd Jürgens as Pfarrer Konrad Johannsen
  • Heinz Reincke as Titus Kleinwiehe, Messner
  • Barbara Lass as Dagmar
  • Corny Collins as Ingrid Brahms
  • Dieter Borsche as Pastor Tönning
  • Günther Stoll as Barbesitzer Heino Docke
  • Horst Naumann as Willy Krekel
  • Carl Lange as Monsignore
  • Werner Bruhns as Clemens Bossum, Detective Chief Inspector
  • Walter Buschhoff as Importeur Carl Ostro
  • Hans Hessling as Dr. Paul Meerkatz
  • Christian Engelmann as Jörg Ostro
  • Christine Diersch as Hilde Leonhard, friend of Jörg Ostro
  • Georg Hartmann as Jan Poppenbüll, mayor
  • Helga Feddersen as Tine Poppenbüll
  • Klaus-Hagen Latwesen as Holger Rudbool
  • Jean-Pierre Bonin as Luigi Moretti
  • Jürgen Lier as Mario Scala
  • Ilse Peternell as Solveig
  • Wolfgang Condrus as Holger

References

  1. ^ Mayer, Geoffrey (2012). Historical Dictionary of Crime Films. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. p. 169. ISBN 978-0-8108-6769-7.

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