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]

Call Over the Air
Directed byGeorg C. Klaren
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Written byKurt Heuser
Produced byGeorg Wilhelm Pabst
Starring
CinematographyWilli Sohm
Music byRoland Kovac
Production
company
Pabst-Kiba-Filmproduktionsgesellschaft
Distributed byUnion Film
Release date
  • 5 January 1951 (1951-01-05)
Running time
82 minutes
CountryAustria
LanguageGerman

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

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References

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  1. ^ Fritsche p.242
  2. ^ Rentschler p.284

Bibliography

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  • 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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