David Bowie’s 1978 movie ‘Just a Gigolo’ will be released in the UK for the first time ever this summer.
The movie, directed by David Hemmings, has been digitally remastered and comes packaged with a 54-page booklet and other bonus features.
A synopsis reads: “Paul von Przygodski (David Bowie), a young Prussian gentleman, arrives in the trenches in time to be caught in the final explosion of the Great War.
“After recuperating in a military hospital, where he is mistaken for a French hero, he returns to Berlin. His family home has been turned into a boarding house, his father (Rudolf Schündler) is paralysed, and his mother (Maria Schell) is working in the Turkish baths.
“Attempting to find a new purpose, his childhood friend, Cilly (Sydne Rome), abandons him for fame and fortune; his former commanding officer, Captain Kraft (David Hemmings), tries to persuade him to join his right-wing movement and a widow, Helga von Kaiserling (Kim Novak), briefly seduces him with the finer things in life.”
The Life on Mars singer appears alongside Marlena Dietrich and Kim Novak in the flick – his first after Nicolas Roeg’s ‘The Man Who Fell to Earth’ two years earlier.
‘Just a Gigolo’ will be available from August 16 and is available to pre-order now.
