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Operation Sleeping Bag

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Operation Sleeping Bag
German film poster
GermanUnternehmen Schlafsack
Directed byArthur Maria Rabenalt
Written byKurt E. Walter
Produced byWalter Koppel
Gyula Trebitsch
StarringEva Ingeborg Scholz
Paul Klinger
Karlheinz Böhm
CinematographyAlbert Benitz
Edited byMargot von Schlieffen
Music byBert Grund
Production
company
Distributed byJ. Arthur Rank Film
Release date
  • 23 September 1955 (1955-09-23)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryWest Germany
LanguageGerman

Operation Sleeping Bag (German: Unternehmen Schlafsack) is a 1955 West German comedy war film directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt and starring Eva Ingeborg Scholz, Paul Klinger and Karlheinz Böhm.[1]

It was shot at the Wandsbek Studios in Hamburg. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Albrecht Becker and Herbert Kirchhoff. It was distributed by the German branch of the Rank Organisation.

Plot

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During the closing stages of the Second World War, a bureaucratic mistake leads to a German officer being reassigned from the dangerous Eastern Front to Berlin and a new non-existent unit.

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ Goble, Alan (1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. p. 346. ISBN 3598114923.
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