''Exit Sunset Boulevard'' is a 1980

German German(s) may refer to: * Germany, the country of the Germans and German things **Germania (Roman era) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizenship in Germany, see also Ge ...

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...

written and directed by

Bastian Clevé Bastian Clevé (born 1 January 1950, in Munich), is a German filmmaker and producer. He is Professor and Head of the Film Production-Department at the Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg in Ludwigsburg, Germany. Biography Clevé grew up in Hamburg ...

and starring

Rüdiger Kuhlbrodt Rüdiger Kuhlbrodt is a Germans, German film and theatre actor and director. Life Rüdiger Kuhlbrodt was born in Hamburg, Nazi Germany, Germany, on 20 November 1942. After high school, he studied performing arts at the Hochschule für Musik und ...

and

Azizi Johari Azizi Johari is the pseudonym of a Black American model and actress who was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for June 1975. Early life Azizi Johari was born in New York City on August 24, 1948. Due to her father's military service, ...

, and as guest

Elke Sommer Elke Sommer (; née Schletz, 5 November 1940) is a German actress. She appeared in numerous films throughout the 1960s and 1970s, including roles in ''The Pink Panther'' sequel '' A Shot in the Dark'' (1964), the Bob Hope comedy '' Boy, Did I ...

. The film takes its name from

Sunset Boulevard Sunset Boulevard is a boulevard in the central and western part of Los Angeles, California, United States, that stretches from the Pacific Coast Highway (California), Pacific Coast Highway in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, Pacific Palisad ...

Plot

A German man (Rüdiger Kuhlbrodt) travels to

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to claim an inheritance, but discovers it is tied up in property in the desert. He tries to set himself up there, but he soon finds himself overwhelmed by the American way of life and begins to suffer a mental breakdown.BFI.org
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* 1980 films 1980 drama films German drama films West German films English-language German films Films set in California Foreign films set in the United States 1980s German films {{1980s-Germany-film-stub