Attack on Baku

Attack on Baku
Directed by	Fritz Kirchhoff
Written by	Hans Wolfgang Hillers Hans Weidemann
Produced by	Hans Weidemann
Starring	Willy Fritsch René Deltgen Fritz Kampers Hans Zesch-Ballot
Cinematography	Robert Baberske
Edited by	Erich Kobler
Music by	Alois Melichar
Production company	UFA
Distributed by	UFA
Release date	25 August 1942 (1942-08-25)
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. 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 H. 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
• Nicolas Koline 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

Bibliography

• Hake, Sabine (2001). Popular Cinema of the Third Reich. Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-73458-6.
• Eltin, Richard A., ed. (2002). Art, Culture, and Media Under the Third Reich. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-22087-1.

External links

• Attack on Baku at IMDb