Glamoroso!
(10) The High Society Of Los Angeles
No suburb has a more glamorous name than Beverly Hills, the ultimate of teh American Dream. A colony of wealth, with a great connection to Rodeo Drive, the ultimate shopping street. A „Pretty Woman“ movie come alive.
The film is featuring stars such as Melanie Griffith, Antonio Banderas or Patrick Swayze. Or their producer behind the scenes, Diane Sillan-Isaacs, who also produced „Miami Vice“. We‘re meeting Arnold Schwarzenegger at a political dinner for his father-in-law Sargent Shriver, the former mastermind of the Kennedy clan.
A film about glittering facades and plastic surgery, about the father of the cult-figure „Alf“ and the fitness trainer of the stars, about meditation wigwams and the world‘s biggest wardrobes and the most filmed swimming pool of town. Its owner, Billionaire and Stanford University graduate James Goldstein can afford the luxury of having just his threegreat hobbys on his business card: Fashion – Architecture – Basketball. His John Lautner design house, sitting at a steep cliff, overlooking Beverly Hills and all of L.A. is one of the most featured private buildings in America. It was a key location for the movies „The Big Lebowski“ and „Charlie‘s Angels“. And for this film.
*Original German title: Mondän!
The film is featuring stars such as Melanie Griffith, Antonio Banderas or Patrick Swayze. Or their producer behind the scenes, Diane Sillan-Isaacs, who also produced „Miami Vice“. We‘re meeting Arnold Schwarzenegger at a political dinner for his father-in-law Sargent Shriver, the former mastermind of the Kennedy clan.
A film about glittering facades and plastic surgery, about the father of the cult-figure „Alf“ and the fitness trainer of the stars, about meditation wigwams and the world‘s biggest wardrobes and the most filmed swimming pool of town. Its owner, Billionaire and Stanford University graduate James Goldstein can afford the luxury of having just his threegreat hobbys on his business card: Fashion – Architecture – Basketball. His John Lautner design house, sitting at a steep cliff, overlooking Beverly Hills and all of L.A. is one of the most featured private buildings in America. It was a key location for the movies „The Big Lebowski“ and „Charlie‘s Angels“. And for this film.
*Original German title: Mondän!
Facts
The Mondän! (Glamoroso!) series was nominated for the national Adolf-Grimme-Prize in 2000
First aired 31st October 1999, 22.15 pm on ZDF
2,4 million viewers, 13,3 % market share
The Mondän! series had unbelievable 67 reruns between 1998 and 2011.
Credits
Written and directed by
Petra Höfer
Freddie Röckenhaus
Francesca D‘Amicis
Produced by:
Petra Höfer
Freddie Röckenhaus
Producers
Ute Zahn
Silke Roessink
DOP:
Thomas Schäfer
Additional Camera:
Aiken Weiss
Editing:
Jörg Wegner
Cast:
James Goldstein
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Melanie Griffith
Antonio Banderas
Patrick Swayze
Tom Patchett
Bill Panzer
Bijan Pakzad
Sean Connery
Editor at ZDF:
Peter Arens
A colourFIELD production, commissioned by ZDF
