Operation Sleeping Bag
1955 film
| Operation Sleeping Bag | |
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 German film poster | |
| German | Unternehmen Schlafsack |
| Directed by | Arthur Maria Rabenalt |
| Written by | Kurt E. Walter |
| Produced by | Walter Koppel Gyula Trebitsch |
| Starring | Eva Ingeborg Scholz Paul Klinger Karlheinz Böhm |
| Cinematography | Albert Benitz |
| Edited by | Margot von Schlieffen |
| Music by | Bert Grund |
Production company | Real Film |
| Distributed by | J. Arthur Rank Film |
Release date |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | West Germany |
| Language | German |
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]
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.
Plot
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 Captain Brack
- Karlheinz Böhm as artillerist Gravenhorst
- Kurt Meisel as first lieutenant Taut
- Renate Mannhardt as Renate Kern
- Bum Krüger as Oberwachtmeister Kern
- Gisela Tantau as young 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 lieutenant colonel König
- Kai Fischer as Sylvia, the actress
- Willi Rose as Klawitter, the doorman
- Josef Dahmen as Major Fercher
- Jupp Hussels as captain
- Franz Muxeneder as lance corporal Hallgruber
- Reinhold Nietschmann as Herr Prill
- Wolfgang Neuss as Captain Z.
- Horst Breitenfeld as lance corporal Borngräber
- Willy Millowitsch as sergeant Wiechert
- Götz von Langheim as first lieutenant Randolph
- Walter Klam as Captain Becker
- Adeline Wagner as Eva
- Helmut Peine as 1st officer in the OKH
- Carl Voscherau as 2nd officer in the OKH
- Rudolf Fenner as 3rd officer in the OKH
- Benno Sterzenbach as officer of the SS
- Lotte Klein as Frau Körber
- Aranka Jaenke as young woman
- Kurt Fuß as hotel doorman
- Karl-Heinz Kreienbaum as lance corporal X
- Karl Fleischer as lance corporal Y
- Albert Florath as caretaker at the Music Academy
- Friedrich Schütter as first lieutenant B
References
- ^ Goble, Alan (1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. p. 346. ISBN 3598114923.
External links
- Operation Sleeping Bag at IMDb
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Films directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt
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- Pappi (1934)
- The Love of the Maharaja (1936)
- Men Are That Way (1939)
- Escape in the Dark (1939)
- Midsummer Night's Fire (1939)
- The Three Codonas (1940)
- Achtung! Feind hört mit! [de] (1940)
- Riding for Germany (1941)
- Front Theatre (1942)
- My Wife Theresa (1942)
- Circus Renz (1943)
- Love Premiere (1943)
- Life Calls (1944)
- Chemistry and Love (1948)
- Everything Will Be Better in the Morning (1948)
- Anonymous Letters (1949)
- Martina (1949)
- Nights on the Nile (1949)
- The Woman from Last Night (1950)
- Regimental Music (1950)
- Immortal Light (1951)
- Wedding in the Hay (1951)
- The White Adventure (1952)
- The Forester's Daughter (1952)
- We're Dancing on the Rainbow (1952)
- Alraune (1952)
- The Mistress of Treves (1952)
- The Immortal Vagabond (1953)
- Lavender (1953)
- The Last Waltz (1953)
- The Bird Seller (1953)
- The Little Czar (1954)
- The Gypsy Baron (1954)
- Love Is Just a Fairytale (1955)
- As Long as There Are Pretty Girls (1955)
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- Between Time and Eternity (1956)
- The Marriage of Doctor Danwitz (1956)
- Spring in Berlin (1957)
- That Won't Keep a Sailor Down (1958)
- A Woman Who Knows What She Wants (1958)
- Arena of Fear (1959)
- What a Woman Dreams of in Springtime (1959)
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