The Big Eden

Germany’s last playboy

The Big Eden — Plot

Rolf Eden is Germany’s last playboy. As ‘king of disco’ he launched the first beauty contests popularising DJing and striptease in prudish West Germany. Father of seven children of seven different women, he has danced with the Rolling Stones and Ella Fitzgerald in his clubs. Rolf Eden is a larger than life octogenarian with long, blond hair… his girlfriend is younger than his grandchild. This unflinching conviction was essential for Eden when he, coming from a Jewish background, entered the German entertainment business of the 1950s. Leaving Israel via Paris, he returned to post war Germany to open a nightclub on West Berlin famous Boulevard Kudamm, decidedly blocking out the country’s recent dark history.

• Release date
• December 8, 2011
• Runtime
• 90 min
• Genres
• Documentary, Drama
• Director
• Peter Dörfler

The Big Eden — Cast

Rolf Eden Self Ursula Buchfellner Self Menahem Golan Self

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Yoram Kaniuk Self Ingrid Steeger Self

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Udo Walz Self

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Kim Fisher Self