Pygmalion (1935)
The poor, lower-class girl Eliza Dolittle sells flowers at London’s St. Paul’s Cathedral to passers-by. Her plain jargon, her headstrong way of expressing herself, fascinates the briefly passing-by language researcher and phonetics teacher professor Higgins. He meets a good acquaintance, colonel Pickering, who is also interested in science, and makes a wager with him: Higgins bets that he can accomplish that, within just six months, he can turn the squalid girl with grubby looks into a gentle lady of the London society with splendid manners and a likewise pronunciation. Eliza may not know what’s coming for her, but after some persuasiveness, she agrees to move into the fine house of the professor.
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Stars:
- Erich Engel
Writing:
- George Bernard Shaw
- Walter Wassermann
- Heinrich Oberländer
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Release Date: 1935-09-01
6/10
- Country: DE
- Language: Deutsch
- Runtime: 91