Elephant Fury

Elephant Fury
Elephant Fury
Directed by	Harry Piel
Written by	; ; ; Harry Piel;
Starring	Harry Piel; Hans Zesch-Ballot; Dorothea Wieck;
Cinematography	; E.W. Fiedler; Karl Puth; ; Klaus von Rautenfeld;
Edited by
Music by	Werner Bochmann; Fritz Wenneis;
Production; companies	Ariel Film; Fabrikation Deutscher Filme;
Distributed by	UFA
Release date	13 October 1953
Running time	100 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

Elephant Fury (German: Gesprengte Gitter) is a 1953 West German drama war film directed by and starring Harry Piel.^[1] It also features Herbert A.E. Bohme, Hans Zesch-Ballot and Dorothea Wieck. The film had a troubled production history. Originally made between 1940 and 1943 under the title of Panic, it faced censorship problems. Following the end of the Second World War Piel recovered the negative which had fallen into the hands of the occupying Soviet forces. He re-shot some scenes and the film was eventually released more than a decade after it had first begun shooting.

Synopsis[]

During the Second World War, an air raid on a zoo leads to the animals escaping across the city.

Cast[]

Harry Piel as Großtierfänger Peter Volker
Herbert A.E. Böhme as Mitarbeiter Fritz Kröger
Hans Zesch-Ballot as Zoodirektor Thiele
Dorothea Wieck as Hella Thiele
Wilhelm P. Krüger as Farmer A. R. Brinkmann
Ruth Eweler as Christa Brinkmann
Fritz Hoopts as Farmer H. Sander
Maria Krahn as Farmerin Küppers
as Affenwärter Alois Leitner
as Elefantenwärter F. Müller
as Raubtierwärter J. Huber
Beppo Brem as Tiergartenbesucher während eines Fliegerangriffs
as Tierwärter Becker
Karl Hellmer
Karl-Heinz Peters
Rudolf Vogel

References[]

^ Rentschler p.283

Bibliography[]

Rentschler, Eric. The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife. Harvard University Press, 1996.

External links[]

Elephant Fury at IMDb

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[1] Rentschler p.283

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