Rommel Calls Cairo
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Directed by | Wolfgang Schleif |
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Edited by | Hermann Ludwig |
Music by | Wolfram Röhrig |
Production company | Omega Film |
Distributed by | Neue Filmverleih |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
Country | West Germany |
Language | German |
Rommel Calls Cairo (German: Rommel ruft Kairo) is a 1959 West German war thriller film directed by Wolfgang Schleif and starring Adrian Hoven, Elisabeth Müller and Peter van Eyck.[1] It is based on a real incident from the North African Campaign during the Second World War.
The film's sets were designed by the art directors Ludwig Reiber and . It was shot on location in Egypt.
Van Eyck reprised his role as László Almásy in the British film Foxhole in Cairo which was released the following year.
Cast[]
- Adrian Hoven as Capt. Johannes Eppler, alias Hussein Gafaar
- Elisabeth Müller as Lt. Kay Morrison
- Peter van Eyck as Capt. Graf von Almassy
- Paul Klinger as Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
- as Amina
- Herbert Tiede as Col. Robertson
- as Sandy
- Wolf Ackva as Maj. Smith
- as Amis
- as Achmed
- Albert Hehn as Lüdinghausen
- as Schmitz
- as Schulze
- as Gruber
- as Oberfeldwebel
- Werner Stock as Abele
- Heinz Lausch
- Panos Papadopulos as Sharani
- as Leila
- as Bachmann
References[]
- ^ Davidson & Hake p. 54
Bibliography[]
- Davidson, John & Hake, Sabine. Framing the Fifties: Cinema in a Divided Germany. Berghahn Books, 2007.
External links[]
Categories:
- 1959 films
- German-language films
- 1950s war films
- German war films
- West German films
- Films directed by Wolfgang Schleif
- North African campaign films
- World War II spy films
- German multilingual films
- 1950s multilingual films
- 1950s German film stubs