Attack on Baku
| Attack on Baku | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Fritz Kirchhoff |
| Produced by | Hans Weidemann |
| Written by |
Hans Wolfgang Hillers Hans Weidemann |
| Starring |
Willy Fritsch René Deltgen Fritz Kampers Hans Zesch-Ballot |
| Music by | Alois Melichar |
| Cinematography | Robert Baberske |
| Edited by | Erich Kobler |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | UFA |
Release dates | 25 August 1942 |
Running time | 91 minutes |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | German |
Attack on Baku (German: Anschlag auf Baku) is a 1942 German thriller film directed by Fritz Kirchhoff and starring Willy Fritsch, René Deltgen and Fritz Kampers. The film was intended as anti-British propaganda during the Second World War. It is noted for its set designs by Otto Hunte, who showed a fascination for modern technology in his depiction of the oil town.[1] The film was shot on location in German-allied Romania, and at Babelsberg Studio in Berlin.
Synopsis
Azerbaijan, 1919. the British hope to secure control of the vast oil fields around Baku by launching a series of terrorist attacks on them. Hans Romberg, a German who is working as a security officer, battles with the British chief agent Captain Forbes and his associates.
Cast
- Willy Fritsch as Hans Romberg
- René Deltgen as Captain Percy Forbes, British Chief Agent
- Fritz Kampers as Sergeant Mathias Ertl
- Hans Zesch-Ballot as Police Minister Barakoff
- Paul Bildt as Camps, U.S. oil magnate in Baku
- Lotte Koch as Sylvia, his daughter
- Erich Ponto as Jensen, Danish oil magnate
- Aribert Wascher as Mamulian, Armenian oil magnate
- Walter Janssen as Hanson, Swedish oil magnate
- Joachim Brennecke as Ali Baba
- Josef Kamper as Zolak
- Wilhelm König as Thatul
- Heinrich Marlow as Lord Seymour, British officer
- Hellmut Helsig as Richard Twinning, British Agent
- Alexander Enge as Steffens, British Agent
- Walter Holetzko as Richards, British Agent
- Peter Elsholtz as British Lieutenant
- Nikolai Kolin as Russian waiter
- Aruth Vartan as GPU agent
- Willy Maertens as Jensen's lawyer
- Boris Alekin as Turkish officer
- Angelo Ferrari as Turkish officer
- Erik Radolf as Forbes' servant
- Herbert Gernot as Colonel Ahmed Bey
- Fred Goebel as British agent
- Reginald Pasch as British agent
- Arthur Reinhardt as British agent
- Nico Turoff as British agent
- Kurt Iller as British agent
- Karl Jüstel as British agent
- Günther Ballier as Jensen's secretary
- Herbert Scholz as Assassin
- Werner Völger as Assassin
- Peter Busse as Oil Tycoon
- Julius E. Herrmann as Oil Tycoon
- Erich Walter as Gregor
- Lotte Hermann as Dancer
- Lula Sachnowsky as Dancer
References
- ↑ Hake p. p.53
Bibliography
- Hake, Sabrine. Popular Cinema of the Third Reich. University of Texas Press, 2001.
- Eltin, Richard A. Art, Culture, and Media Under the Third Reich. University of Chicago Press, 2002
External links
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