S.O.S. Sahara

Produced byStarringCinematographyGünther RittauMusic byLothar BrühneDistributed byACE, UFACountryGermanyLanguageFrench

S.O.S. Sahara is a 1938 German drama film directed by Jacques de Baroncelli and starring Charles Vanel, Jean-Pierre Aumont and Marta Labarr. The film was made in the French language, produced by the French subsidiary of the German studio UFA. It was shot on location in Algeria.^[1] The screenplay was based on a play Men Without a Past by Jean Martet. Martet's credit was removed from the film during the Nazi occupation of France, and he later brought a court case against UFA establishing his rights to the film.^[2]

It was later remade in 1962 as Station Six-Sahara.^[3]

Cast

• Charles Vanel as Loup
• Jean-Pierre Aumont as Paul Moutier
• Marta Labarr as Hélène Muriel
• Raymond Cordy as Charles
• Paul Azaïs as Bobby
• Andrée Lindia as Dolly
• Nilda Duplessy as L'amie
• René Dary as Delini
• Georges Malkine as Ivan
• Georges Lannes as Jacquard
• Bill Bocket as Le policier
• Hugues Wanner as L'employé

References

Bibliography

• Bergfelder, Tim. International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-productions in the 1960s. Berghahn Books, 2005.
• Orlando, Valerie. Screening Morocco: Contemporary Depictions in Film of a Changing Society. Ohio University Press, 2011.

External links

• S.O.S. Sahara at IMDb