Do Not Send Your Wife to Italy

1960 film

Marianne Hold
Claus Biederstaedt
Elma Karlowa

CinematographyHeinz SchnackertzEdited byHerbert TaschnerMusic by

Rolf A. Wilhelm
Larici

Production
company

Franz Seitz Filmproduktion

Distributed byConstantin Film

Release date

22 September 1960 (1960-09-22)

Running time

101 minutesCountryWest GermanyLanguageGerman

Do Not Send Your Wife to Italy (German: Schick Deine Frau nicht nach Italien) is a 1960 West German romantic comedy film directed by Hans Grimm and starring Marianne Hold, Claus Biederstaedt, Elma Karlowa and Tony Sandler in the role of Paolo Costa.^[1]

It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich. The film's art direction was by Max Mellin.

Main cast

Marianne Hold as Dr. Sabine Reimer
Claus Biederstaedt as Robert Kiel
Elma Karlowa as Manuela Beetz
Harald Juhnke as Karl Beetz
Gerlinde Locker as Lizzie Kiel
Horst Naumann as Dr. Martin Wiebold
Franco Andrei as Francesco Brunelli
Tony Sandler as Paolo Costa
Liesl Karlstadt as Tete
Oliver Grimm [de] as Jokki Beetz

References

^ Schrader & Winkler p. 175

Bibliography

Schrader, Sabine; Winkler, Daniel, eds. (2014). The Cinemas of Italian Migration: European and Transatlantic Narratives. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4438-6994-2.