''The Blue Sea and You'' (german: Das blaue Meer und Du) is a 1959 West German

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film directed by Thomas Engel and starring Fred Bertelmann,

Karin Dor Karin Dor (, born Kätherose Derr; 22 February 1938 – 6 November 2017) was a German actress. She was famous to international audiences for her role as Bond girl Helga Brandt in the James Bond film '' You Only Live Twice'' (1967) and her appear ...

and Renate Ewert.Bock & Bergfelder p.96 The film's art direction was by Wolf Englert and

Ernst Richter Ernst Friedrich Eduard Richter (24 October 18089 April 1879), was a German musical theorist and composer, born at Großschönau, Saxony. He first studied music at Zittau, and afterwards at Leipzig, where he attained so high a reputation that in ...

. It was shot at

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Spandau Studios The Spandau Studios or CCC Studios were film and television studios located in Spandau, a suburb of Berlin. They were established in 1949 following the Second World War by the producer Artur Brauner controller of CCC Films, on the site of a form ...

with

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taking place in

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and

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Cast

as Helga Heidebrink * Renate Ewert as Suzy *

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as Christopher Greenwood *

Ursula Herking Ursula Herking (28 January 1912 – 17 November 1974) was a German film actress. She appeared in more than 130 films between 1933 and 1972. She was born in Dessau, Germany and died in Munich, West Germany. Selected filmography * ''Susanne ...

as Fräulein Spätlieb * Hans Nielsen as Direktor Heidebrink * Stanislav Ledinek as Der Bärtige * Eduard Wandrey *

Kurt Weitkamp Kurt is a male given name of Germanic or Turkish origin. ''Kurt'' or ''Curt'' originated as short forms of the Germanic Conrad, depending on geographical usage, with meanings including counselor or advisor. In Turkish, Kurt means "Wolf" and i ...

* Petar Spajic-Suljo *

Käte Jaenicke Käte Jaenicke (22 March 1923 – 1 November 2002) was a German theater and film actress. She appeared in more than ninety films from 1954 to 1975. Personal life She was in a relationship with writer Aras Ören, and had a daughter Anja Jaenicke ...

* Ada Witzke * Kurt Pratsch-Kaufmann *

Klaus Becker Klaus Becker (born February 4, 1953 in Marburg, Germany) is a German/American businessman, working in the steel industry. Early life and education Klaus Becker was born in Marburg, Germany in 1953 and grew up in Dortmund, where his father wor ...

References

Bibliography

* Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

* 1959 films 1959 romantic comedy films 1959 musical comedy films German romantic comedy films German musical comedy films West German films 1950s German-language films Films directed by Thomas Engel Films about vacationing Films shot at Spandau Studios 1950s German films {{romantic-comedy-film-stub