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.

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References

  1. Hake p. p.53

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