01 Apr 1994
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Chronicles the early days of The Beatles in Hamburg, Germany. The film focuses primarily on the relationship between Stuart Sutcliffe, John Lennon, and Sutcliffe's girlfriend Astrid Kirchherr.
Port of Desire
Pierre is in Hamburg on a merchant ship with his friends Georges and Jean-Marie. While they are just looking for a good time in the twenty-four hours they have to waste in the city, Pierre is seized by the memory of a young German girl, Maria, whom he had known and probably loved when he was a prisoner of war in the bombed-out port of Hamburg. He abandons his companions in search of her, but is unable to trace her, her house having been destroyed and the search services having no record of her.
Top Billed Cast
Hildegard Knef Maria
Daniel Gélin Pierre
Jean Lefebvre Georges
Daniel Sorano Jean-Marie
Frédéric O'Brady Barkeeper
Almuth Bock N.A.
Reinhold Nietschmann 
Günther Jerschke 
Reiner Brönneke Pimp at Bar
Kurt Klopsch Julius, the Cabaret Owner
Bob Iller Patron Sponging the Wrestling Winner
Joachim Rake Karl Friedrich Feudell 
Hans Hessling Günther Jerschke Heindrick
Maya Merlin Lore Schulz Karin Volkert Blonde at Bar
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