“Germany’s last playboy”
Rolf Eden is Germany’s last playboy. As ‘king of disco’ he launched the first beauty contests popularising DJing and striptease in prudish West Germany. Father of seven children of seven different women, he has danced with the Rolling Stones and Ella Fitzgerald in his clubs. Rolf Eden is a larger than life octogenarian with long, blond hair… his girlfriend is younger than his grandchild. This unflinching conviction was essential for Eden when he, coming from a Jewish background, entered the German entertainment business of the 1950s. Leaving Israel via Paris, he returned to post war Germany to open a nightclub on West Berlin famous Boulevard Kudamm, decidedly blocking out the country’s recent dark history.
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Rolf Eden
Self
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Ursula Buchfellner
Self
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Devil Hunter
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Benny Drechsel
Peter Dörfler
Menahem Golan
Self
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Armstrong
Kurt Otterbacher
Yoram Kaniuk
Self
Martin Pieper
Ingrid Steeger
Self
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The Young Seducers 3
Me, a Groupie
Bert Schmidt
Udo Walz
Self
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Meine wunderbare Familie
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Karsten Stöter
Peter Dörfler Director
Budget $716K · First release December 8, 2011 · Produced in Germany
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Budget
$716,000
Production
Strandfilm
Production
ZDF
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ARTE
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Rohfilm
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Strandfilm-Produktions GmbH
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Germany
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English · German · Hebrew
Release dates
Germany · December 8, 2011
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Poland
May 12, 2012 · Planete+ Doc Film Festival
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