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 date
 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

  1. ↑ Hake 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


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