Call Over the Air (German: Ruf aus dem Äther) is a 1951 Austrian drama film directed by Georg C. Klaren and Georg Wilhelm Pabst and starring Oskar Werner, Lucia Scharf and Fritz Imhoff.[1]
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Directed by | Georg C. Klaren Georg Wilhelm Pabst |
Written by | Kurt Heuser |
Produced by | Georg Wilhelm Pabst |
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Cinematography | Willi Sohm |
Music by | Roland Kovac |
Production company | Pabst-Kiba-Filmproduktionsgesellschaft |
Distributed by | Union Film |
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Running time | 82 minutes |
Country | Austria |
Language | German |
It was made at the Sievering Studios in Vienna with location shooting at the Dachstein in the Alps.[2] The film's sets were designed by the art director Fritz Jüptner-Jonstorff. Although filming took place in 1948, it was not released for a further three years in either Austria or West Germany.
The film is regarded as lost.
Cast
edit- Oskar Werner as Der Student
- Lucia Scharf as Das Mädchen
- Fritz Imhoff as Onkel Otto
- Ernst Waldbrunn as Makkabi
- Otto Wögerer as Der Alte
- Heinz Moog as Wartanian
- Ekkehard Arendt as Spitz
- Fritz Berger as Maccaroni
- Hermann Erhardt as Schiesser
- Josef Gmeinder as Schlafmütze
- Walter Ladengast as Der Geflickte
- Jürg Medicus as Dechiffreur
- Karl Ranninger as Kogler
- Rudolf Rhomberg as Piefke
- Evelyn Schroll as Regine Kogler
- Toni van Eyck as Frau Kogler
- Rudolf Vones as Funker
References
editBibliography
edit- Fritsche, Maria. Homemade Men in Postwar Austrian Cinema: Nationhood, Genre and Masculinity. Berghahn Books, 2013.
- Eric Rentschler. The Films of G.W. Pabst: an extraterritorial cinema. Rutgers University Press, 1990.
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