Homesick for St. Pauli is a 1963 German

Cinema of Germany

Cinema in Germany can be traced back to the late 19th century. German cinema has made major technical and artistic contributions to film.Unlike any other national cinemas, which developed in the context of relatively continuous and stable political systems, Germany witnesses major changes to its...

 drama film

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 directed by Werner Jacobs

Werner Jacobs

-Selected filmography:* Gitarren der Liebe * André and Ursula * San Salvatore * Santa Lucia * The Count of Luxemburg * Münchhausen in Afrika * Here I Am, Here I Stay...

 and starring Freddy Quinn

Freddy Quinn

Freddy Quinn is an Austrian singer and actor whose popularity within the German-speaking world soared in the late 1950s and 1960s. Similar to Hans Albers two generations before him, Quinn adopted the persona of the rootless wanderer who goes to sea but longs for a home, family and friends...

, Josef Albrecht and Ullrich Haupt

Ullrich Haupt, Jr.

Ullrich Haupt was an American-born German actor. His father was a German actor who worked in Hollywood films, but he returned to Germany following his father's death in 1931.-Selcted filmography:* Homesick for St...

. A German singer who has enjoyed massive success in the United States, returns to his hometown, the St. Pauli

St. Pauli

St. Pauli , located in the Hamburg-Mitte borough, is one of the 105 quarters of the city of Hamburg, Germany. Situated on the right bank of the Elbe river, the Landungsbrücken are a northern part of the port of Hamburg. St. Pauli contains a world famous red light district around the street Reeperbahn...

 district of Hamburg

Hamburg

-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

.

The film was one of the many foreign films that Jayne Mansfield

Jayne Mansfield

Jayne Mansfield was an American actress working both in Hollywood and on the Broadway theatre...

 made in the 1960s, after becoming a star in the late 1950s in films like: The Girl Can't Help It

The Girl Can't Help It

The Girl Can't Help It is a 1956 comedy musical film starring Jayne Mansfield, Tom Ewell, and Edmond O'Brien. It was produced and directed by Frank Tashlin, with a screenplay adapted by Tashlin and Herbert Baker from an uncredited novel Do Re Me by Garson Kanin...

(1956) and Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? is a 1957 American satiric comedy film starring Jayne Mansfield and Tony Randall, with Betsy Drake, Joan Blondell, John Williams, Henry Jones, Lili Gentle, Mickey Hargitay, and a cameo by Groucho Marx...

(1957).

Cast

• Freddy Quinn
  Freddy Quinn
  Freddy Quinn is an Austrian singer and actor whose popularity within the German-speaking world soared in the late 1950s and 1960s. Similar to Hans Albers two generations before him, Quinn adopted the persona of the rootless wanderer who goes to sea but longs for a home, family and friends...
  
   ... Jimmy Jones
• Josef Albrecht ... Theo Steinemann
• Ullrich Haupt, Jr.
  Ullrich Haupt, Jr.
  Ullrich Haupt was an American-born German actor. His father was a German actor who worked in Hollywood films, but he returned to Germany following his father's death in 1931.-Selcted filmography:* Homesick for St...
  
   ... Bob Hartau
• Erna Sellmer
  Erna Sellmer
  -Selected filmography:* Port of Freedom * Murderers Among Us * Corinna Schmidt * Das Herz von St. Pauli * Münchhausen in Afrika * Homesick for St. Pauli * Charleys Onkel...
  
   ... Mutter Steinemann
• Beppo Brem
  Beppo Brem
  -Selected filmography:* The Bartered Bride * Um das Menschenrecht * The Private's Job * Meiseken * Quax in Afrika * Elephant Fury * Winter in the Woods * Season in Salzburg...
  
   ... Seppl
• Bill Ramsey
  Bill Ramsey (singer)
  Bill Ramsey is German - American jazz and pop singer, journalist and actor. Famous for his German-language hits.- Biography :...
  
   ... Jack
• Jayne Mansfield
  Jayne Mansfield
  Jayne Mansfield was an American actress working both in Hollywood and on the Broadway theatre...
  
   ... Evelyne
• Christa Schindler ... Rosie Becker
• Hein Riess ... Kuddel
• Heiner Holl ... Manager Harry
• Charles Palent ... Rotkäppchen
• Addi Münster ... Wirt