Alarm in Peking
Alarm in Peking is a 1937 German adventure film directed by Herbert Selpin and starring Gustav Fröhlich, Leny Marenbach and Peter Voß. It is set against the backdrop of the 1900 Boxer Rebellion in China. German filmmakers had frequently used China as a setting since the 1910s, but from 1931 onwards they made a series of films with political overtones.[1]
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| Directed by | Herbert Selpin |
| Produced by | Eduard Kubat |
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| Music by | Werner Bochmann |
| Cinematography | Friedl Behn-Grund |
| Edited by | Lena Neumann |
Production company | Minerva-Tonfilm |
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Running time | 89 minutes |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | German |
The film's sets were designed by the art director Alfred Bütow and Willi Herrmann. It was shot at the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin.
Cast
- Gustav Fröhlich as Oberleutnant Brock
- Leny Marenbach as Maria
- Peter Voß as Captain Cunningham
- Herbert Hübner as Korvettenkapitän von Radain
- Bernhard Minetti as Tu-Hang
- Rosa Jung as Yung-Li
- Paul Westermeier as Sergeant Mück
- Ferdinand Classen as Tschang
- Joachim Rake as Leutnant Torelli
- Günther Lüders as Gefreiter Lüdecke
- Hugo Fischer-Köppe as Sergeant Micky
- Arthur Reinhardt as Brandes
- Adolf Fischer as Reiter
- Leopold von Ledebur as Generalkonsul
- Georg H. Schnell as Gesandter
- Karl Günther as Kommandeur
References
- Baskett p. 194
Bibliography
- Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.
- Baskett, Michael (2008). The Attractive Empire: Transnational Film Culture in Imperial Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-3163-9.
- Rentschler, Eric (1996). The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-57640-7.
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