It All Started So Gaily (Es fing so harmlos an) 80 years old

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.

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It All Started So Gaily Cast

Name Character
Theo Lingen He was 41, 75 years old when he died as Bonifatius 'Boni' Zeck
Max Gülstorff He was 62, 64 years old when he died as Hotelarzt
Christl Mardayn She was 47, 74 years old when she died as Olivia
Will Dohm He was 47, 51 years old when he died as Alexander Pilat Ravestyn
Johannes Heesters He was 40, 108 years old when he died as Clemens Verné
Inge List She was 27, 85 years old when she died as Annette

It All Started So Gaily Crew

Name Department
Erich Claunigk as Director of Photography. He was 44 (76) years old when He died Camera
Franz Gribitz as Screenplay. He was 49 (74) years old when He died Writing
It All Started So Gaily poster
It All Started So Gaily (80 years)

  • Release day: Monday, August 28, 1944
  • Runtime: 90 minutes