# The Apartment (1960)

**German title:** Das Appartement


**Genres:** Drama, Comedy

**Duration:** 125 min

**Age rating:** FSK 16

**IMDb:** [8.3](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053604/)

**Letterboxd:** [4.4](https://letterboxd.com/film/the-apartment/)

**Rotten Tomatoes:** [Tomatometer: 93%, Popcornmeter: 94%](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1001115-apartment)

## Description

A Manhattan insurance clerk tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but office politics and his own romantic hopes complicate matters.

## Details

**Premiere:** 12 May 1960

**Director:** Billy Wilder

**Cast:** Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen, David Lewis, Hope Holiday, Joan Shawlee, Naomi Stevens, Johnny Seven, Joyce Jameson, Willard Waterman

**Countries:** United States

**Languages:** English

**Available versions:** OV

**Open-air showtimes:** No

**Trailer:** [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isjfwA0B5xQ)

## Showtimes in Berlin in original language (OV, OmU, OmeU)

### 2026-11-01 (Sunday)

- **[Delphi-Filmpalast am Zoo](https://ov-berlin.info/cinemas/126-delphi-filmpalast-am-zoo.md) (Charlottenburg):** [2026-11-01 11:00](https://www.yorck.de/en/checkout/seats?sessionid=1013-6032)  (OV)