Operation Sleeping Bag
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]
| Operation Sleeping Bag | |
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| Directed by | Arthur Maria Rabenalt |
| Produced by | Walter Koppel Gyula Trebitsch |
| Written by | Kurt E. Walter |
| Starring | Eva Ingeborg Scholz Paul Klinger Karlheinz Böhm |
| Music by | Bert Grund |
| Cinematography | Albert Benitz |
| Edited by | Margot von Schlieffen |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | J. Arthur Rank Film |
Release date | 23 September 1955 |
Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | West Germany |
| Language | German |
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.
Synopsis
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
- Eva Ingeborg Scholz as Käthe Forbach
- Paul Klinger as Hauptmann Brack
- Karlheinz Böhm as Kanonier Gravenhorst
- Kurt Meisel as Oberleutnant Taut
- Renate Mannhardt as Renate Kern
- Bum Krüger as Oberwachtmeister Kern
- Gisela Tantau as Junge Tänzerin Nica
- Oskar Sima as Oberstleutnant Quent
- Dorothea Wieck as Frau Gravenhorst
- Ursula Herking as Ulla
- Beppo Brem as Unteroffizier Weidlinger
- Charles Regnier as Oberfeldrichter Dr. Kratz
- Ernst Waldow as Oberstleutnant König
- Kai Fischer as Schauspielerin Sylvia
- Willi Rose as Portier Klawitter
- Josef Dahmen as Major Fercher
- Jupp Hussels as Hauptmann
- Franz Muxeneder as Obergefreiter Hallgruber
- Reinhold Nietschmann as Herr Prill
- Wolfgang Neuss as Hauptmann Z.
- Horst Breitenfeld as Gefreiter Borngräber
- Willy Millowitsch as Feldwebel Wiechert
- Götz von Langheim as Oberleutnant Randolph
- Walter Klam as Hauptmann Becker
- Adeline Wagner as Eva
- Helmut Peine as 1. Offizier im OKH
- Carl Voscherau as 2. Offizier im OKH
- Rudolf Fenner as 3. Offizier im OKH
- Benno Sterzenbach as Offizier des SS
- Lotte Klein as Frau Körber
- Aranka Jaenke as Junge Frau
- Kurt Fuß as Hotelportier
- Karl-Heinz Kreienbaum as Gefreiter X
- Karl Fleischer as Gefreiter Y
- Albert Florath as Hausmeister der Musikhochschule
- Friedrich Schütter as Oberleutnant B
References
- Goble p.346
Bibliography
- Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
External links
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