Escape from Sahara (1958)
Three Foreign Legionnaires - Luigi, Pat and Kurt - desert during the Algerian war because they have had enough of the inhumane war machine. But their comrade Robert intercepts them and decides to have them court-martialed. On their way to Algiers, they pick up young Madeleine, who has just survived an attack by insurgents. Suddenly Robert changes his mind and joins the deserters. Madeleine realizes that she is now a prisoner of the four foreign legionnaires and must make her own escape.
Director:
Wolfgang Staudte
Writers:
Emil Burri, Johannes Mario Simmel, Werner Jörg Lüddecke.
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Hildegard Knef as Madeleine Durand |
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Bernhard Wicki as Luigi Locatelli |
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Hannes Messemer as Robert Altmann |
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Helmut Schmid as Pat Kilby |
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Joachim Hansen as Kurt Gerber |
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Harry Meyen as Jean de Maire |
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Werner Peters as Brouillard |
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Siegfried Lowitz as Kapitän Gerlach |
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Ursula Diestel as Lucienne Germanini |
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Friedrich Maurer as |
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Leonard Steckel as |
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Hanita Hallan as |
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Friedrich Gnaß as |
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Horst Beck as |
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Reinhold Bernt as |
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Joachim Cadenbach as |
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Ernst von Klipstein as |
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Ursula Krieg as |
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Tilly Lauenstein as |
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Georg Lehn as |
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Sigurd Lohde as |
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Ralph Lothar as |
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Oscar Sabo as |
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Harald Sawade as |
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Friedrich Schoenfelder as |
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Arthur Schröder as |
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Herbert Stass as |
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Walter Tarrach as |
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Horst Uhse as |
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Carl Voscherau as |
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Eduard Linkers as |
| Directing | Wolfgang Staudte | Director |
| Writing | Emil Burri | Screenplay |
| Editing | Martha Dübber | Editor |
| Camera | Václav Vích | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Johannes Mario Simmel | Screenplay |
| Sound | Siegfried Franz | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Werner Jörg Lüddecke | Screenplay |
| Production | Peter Schaeffers | Producer |
| Production | Aldo von Pinelli | Producer |