Congo Express (film)
| Congo Express | |
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| Directed by | Eduard von Borsody |
| Written by |
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| Produced by | Georg Witt |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Igor Oberberg |
| Edited by | |
| Music by | Werner Bochmann |
Production company | UFA |
| Distributed by | UFA |
Release date | 15 December 1939 |
Running time | 88 minutes |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | German |
Congo Express (German: Kongo-Express) is a 1939 German adventure film directed by Eduard von Borsody and starring Marianne Hoppe, Willy Birgel. and René Deltgen.[1]
The film's sets were designed by the art director Franz Koehn. Location filming took place on railway lines close to Celle.
Cast[]
- Marianne Hoppe as Renate Brinkmann
- Willy Birgel as Viktor Hartmann
- René Deltgen as Gaston Thibault
- Hermann Speelmans as Chagrin
- Max Gülstorff as Dr. MacPhearson
- Lotte Spira as Sister Mary
- Malte Jaeger as Pierre Dufour
- Heinz Engelmann as Raoul Burell
- Toni von Bukovics as Raoul's Mother
- Hans Adalbert Schlettow as André
- Hans Hermann Schaufuß as Mollison
- as Mrs. Mollison
- Willi Schur as Matthieu
- Ernst Rotmund as Tsessebe station master
- Edwin Jürgensen as Prefect
- as Mondome station master
- as Prefect's secretaryMayor
- Lutz Götz as Distriktkommissar
- as Mayor of Lukanga
- as First farmer
- as Second farmer
- as Third farmer
- as Fourth farmer
- as Fifth farmer
- Angelo Ferrari as Sixth farmer
- Louis Ralph as Seventh farmer
- as Eighth farmer
- as Ninth farmer
- as Tenth farmer
- as Kolonialoffizier
- Toni Tetzlaff as Aunt Estella
- Antonie Jaeckel as First Aunt
- Maria Krahn as Second Aunt
- as Third Aunt
- as Sophie
References[]
- ^ Bock & Bergfelder p. 82
Bibliography[]
- Bock, Hans-Michael and Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise Cinegraph: An Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
- Kreimeier, Klaus. The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918–1945. University of California Press, 1999.
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Categories:
- German-language films
- 1939 films
- 1930s adventure films
- 1930s romance films
- German adventure films
- German romance films
- German films
- Films of Nazi Germany
- Films directed by Eduard von Borsody
- UFA GmbH films
- German black-and-white films
- 1930s German film stubs