Private Schulz
Rating: 4.8 · 1981 · Crime, Comedy, Drama, War · United Kingdom, Australia · 1 sns
Description
Private Schulz is a six-part 1981 television comedy-drama serial written by Jack Pulman and produced for BBC Two. It stars Michael Elphick in the title role, with Ian Richardson, Tony Caunter, Billie Whitelaw, Billy Murray, and Mark Wingett. Set primarily in Germany, during and immediately following World War II, fraudster and petty criminal Gerhard Schulz is forced to serve in the SS. In a story based on the real, though unrealised, plot by the Germans known as Operation Bernhard, Schulz tricks the Nazis into making counterfeit British £5 notes, millions of which will be used to destroy the British economy.
Information
- Year
- 1981
- Genre
- Crime, Comedy, Drama, War
- Country
- United Kingdom, Australia
- Seasons
- 1
- TMDB
- 4.8
- IMDb
- 4.8
Director
Cast
- Michael Elphick — Gerhard Schulz
- Ian Richardson — Major Neuheim
- Cyril Shaps — Solly
- Ronald Baddiley — British Newsreel Commentator (voice, uncredited)
- Billie Whitelaw — Bertha Freyer
- Terence Suffolk — Willy Schumacher
- Walter Sparrow — Becker
- Clive Merrison — Radio Announcer (voice)
- John Shrapnel — German Newsreel Commentator (voice, uncredited)
- David Swift — Professor Bodelschwingh
- Ken Campbell — Krauss
- Mark Wingett — Walter Schmidt
- Darlene Johnson — Kitty
- Trevor T. Smith — Captain Ohm
- Carl Davis — Pianist at Salon Kitty (uncredited)
- Gawn Grainger — Adolf Hitler
- Ernest Clark — Fritsch
- John Cording — Kube
- Vernon Dobtcheff — Sturmer
- John Judd — Warden