A funny walk through the life story of Billy Wilder (1906-2002), a cinematic genius; a portrait of a filmmaker who never was a boring man, a superb mind who had ten commandments, of which the first nine were: “Thou shalt not bore.”
Casts Mario Adorf, Paul Diamond, Dick Guttman, Rudolf John, Marthe Keller, Charles Matthau, Todd Purdum, George Schlatter, Volker Schlöndorff, Armgard Seegers-Karasek
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