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Billy Wilder «Sunset Boulevard»
Billy Wilder, «Sunset Boulevard», 1950
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Categories: Film

Keywords: Narration

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United States | Concept: Charles Brackett; Billy Wilder | Director: Billy Wilder | Camera: John F. Seitz | Participants: Billy Holden; Gloria Swanson; Erich von Stroheim u.a. | Schnitt: Arthur Schmidt
 

 Billy Wilder
«Sunset Boulevard»

Joe Gillis, bankrupt screenwriter, hides from car repossessors in the garage of a deserted-looking mansion which proves to be the grotesque home of Norma Desmond, retired silent screen star. Joe takes refuge there, with a nominal job of rewriting Norma's hopeless 'comeback' screenplay. Weeks pass; feeling more and more like a kept man, Joe grasps at reality in the form of a clandestine friendship with script reader Betty Schaefer, but it's too late...