The Apartment
Billy Wilder / US, 1960 / 126 min.
Drab office clerk C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon) will do anything to move up the ladder. To curry favour with his bosses, he lends them his apartment for their extramarital affairs. Winner of five Oscars.
Lonely office clerk Baxter roams the streets while his bosses have a good time. He’s then forced to choose between his ambitions and his emotions when it turns out the woman he’s secretly in love with, lift girl Fran Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine), is his ultimate boss’s mistress.
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Director
Billy Wilder
Production year
1960
Country
US
Original title
The Apartment
Length
126 min.
Language
English
Subtitles
NLD
Format
DCP
Part of
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