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BBC2. Private Schulz is a 1981 BBC television comedy drama serial set mostly in Germany, during and immediately after World War II. It stars Michael Elphick in the title role and Ian Richardson playing various parts. Other notable actors included Tony Caunter, Billie Whitelaw, Billy Murray and Mark Wingett. It was shown on Masterpiece Theatre ...
Private Schulz is a Mini Series that was made by The BBC in 1981. In Nazi Germany on the eve of World War II, small-time Con Artist Gerhardt Schulz (Michael Elphick) is released from prison to do his bit for the war effort. Using his skill with languages to land what he thinks is a safe, comfortable job in Postal Censorship, Schulz is instead ...
Feb 18, 2020 · As it is, Private Schulz is very, very funny, in spite - or perhaps because - of it being played absolutely straight by an upmarket dramatic cast. Michael Elphick is the eponymous Schulz - a name that has connotations similar to the British "Tommy Atkins" and the American "GI Joe" - a low grade criminal and reluctant conscript who finds himself at the heart of the project.
World War II black comedy based on the true story of an SS conman, and on scripts by Jack Pulman. Story Private Gerhardt Otto Schulz, inducted into the SS's dirty tricks department in spite of all his efforts to keep out of the firing line, conceives the idea of flooding the British economy with forged five pound notes.
Feb 1, 1981 · When against all odds Adolf Hitler himself approves the scheme, Private Schulz finds himself being parachuted into England to bury a canister of fivers in the Kent countryside. Schulz just needs a personal plan to get out of the war alive - with a few leftover notes. Show more. 384 pages, Paperback. First published February 1, 1981.
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Private Schulz: With Michael Elphick, Ian Richardson, Cyril Shaps, Billie Whitelaw. The Time - WWII, the place - Germany. The Germans have a plan to destroy the British economy by flooding the country with forged £5 notes.
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Private Schulz. Broadcast: April 3- May 8, 1983 Comic view of World War II from the German point of view, that of Private Schultz who was pressed into service when he was released from prison. A street savvy, likable loser, Schultz invents an outrageous plan to disrupt the British and Allied wartime economies by forging currency.
