--- title: 'A Glass of Water (1960)' type: 'film' director: 'Helmut Käutner' released: '1960-01-01' runtime_minutes: 83 genres: - 'Comedy' - 'Music' countries: - 'Germany' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/a-glass-of-water-1960' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053867/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # A Glass of Water (1960) 1960 · 83 min · Comedy, Music · Germany Original title: Das Glas Wasser ## Synopsis A Glass of Water is a 1960 West German comedy-musical film directed by Helmut Käutner and starring Gustaf Gründgens, Liselotte Pulver and Sabine Sinjen. It was entered into the 10th Berlin International Film Festival. It is an adaptation of the 1842 French play Le verre d'eau by Eugène Scribe and is set in London in 1710 during the War of the Spanish Succession. It was shot at the Wandsbek Studios in Hamburg. The film's sets were designed by the art director Albrecht Becker and Herbert Kirchhoff. ## Credits - **Director:** [Helmut Käutner](https://cinepixo.com/people/helmut-kautner) - **Original Music Composer:** [Bernhard Eichhorn](https://cinepixo.com/people/bernhard-eichhorn) - **Producer:** [Georg Richter](https://cinepixo.com/people/georg-richter) - **Director of Photography:** [Günther Anders](https://cinepixo.com/people/gunther-anders) - **Editor:** [Klaus Dudenhöfer](https://cinepixo.com/people/klaus-dudenhofer) ## Cast - [Hans Leibelt](https://cinepixo.com/people/hans-leibelt) as butler - [Gustaf Gründgens](https://cinepixo.com/people/gustaf-grundgens) as Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke - [Horst Janson](https://cinepixo.com/people/horst-janson) as Samuel Masham, 1st Baron Masham - [Herbert Weißbach](https://cinepixo.com/people/herbert-wei-bach) as Beichvater - [Hilde Krahl](https://cinepixo.com/people/hilde-krahl) as Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough - [Rudolf Forster](https://cinepixo.com/people/rudolf-forster) as Jean-Baptiste Colbert, marquis de Torcy - [Liselotte Pulver](https://cinepixo.com/people/liselotte-pulver) as Anne of Great Britain - [Sabine Sinjen](https://cinepixo.com/people/sabine-sinjen) as Abigail Masham, Baroness Masham - [Holger Hagen](https://cinepixo.com/people/holger-hagen) as Lord Avondale - [Bobby Todd](https://cinepixo.com/people/bobby-todd) as Maitre de plaisir - [Joachim Rake](https://cinepixo.com/people/joachim-rake) as Lord Avondale ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/a-glass-of-water-1960 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1168471); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.