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Country
  
Germany

Release date
  
25 August 1942

Writer
  
Hans Wolfgang Hillers, Hans Weidemann

Screenplay
  
Hans Weidemann, Hans Wolfgang Hillers

Cast
  
(Hans Romberg, Sicherheitsdienst-Offizier), (Captain Percy Forbes, brit. Chefagent), (Feldwebel Mathias Ertl), (Bakus Polizeiminister Barakoff), (Mr. Camps, US-Ölmagnat in Baku), (Herr Jensen, dänischer Ölmagnat)

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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. The film was shot on location in German-allied Romania, and at Babelsberg Studio in Berlin.

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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

    Attack on Baku Wikipedia
    Attack on Baku IMDbAttack on Baku themoviedb.org


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