Congo Express (film)

February 13, 2024

Congo Express (German: Kongo-Express) is a 1939 German adventure film directed by Eduard von Borsody and starring Marianne Hoppe, Willy Birgel. and René Deltgen.^[1]

Congo Express
German film poster

German	Kongo-Express

Directed by	Eduard von Borsody
Written by	Johanna Sibelius Eduard von Borsody Ernst von Salomon
Produced by	Georg Witt
Starring	Marianne Hoppe Willy Birgel René Deltgen
Cinematography	Igor Oberberg
Edited by	Lisbeth Neumann
Music by	Werner Bochmann
Production company	UFA
Distributed by	UFA
Release date	15 December 1939 (1939-12-15)
Running time	88 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

The film's sets were designed by the art director Franz Koehn. Location shooting took place on railway lines close to Celle.

Cast edit

Marianne Hoppe as Renate Brinkmann
Willy Birgel as Viktor Hartmann
René Deltgen as Gaston Thibault
Hermann Speelmans as Chagrin
Max Gülstorff as Dr. MacPhearson
Lotte Spira as Sister Mary
Malte Jaeger as Pierre Dufour
Heinz Engelmann as Raoul Burell
Toni von Bukovics as Raoul's Mother
Hans Adalbert Schlettow as André
Hans Hermann Schaufuß as Mollison
Leonie Duval [de] as Mrs. Mollison
Willi Schur as Matthieu
Ernst Rotmund as Tsessebe station master
Edwin Jürgensen as Prefect
Fritz Hube [de] as Mondome station master
Walter Lieck [es; de] as Prefect's secretaryMayor
Lutz Götz as Distriktkommissar
Albert Ihle as Mayor of Lukanga
Erik Radolf [de] as First farmer
Manfred Meurer as Second farmer
Hans Schneider as Third farmer
Walter Schramm-Dunker [de] as Fourth farmer
Kurt Hagen [de] as Fifth farmer
Angelo Ferrari as Sixth farmer
Louis Ralph as Seventh farmer
Herbert Schimkat [de] as Eighth farmer
Rudolf Vones [de] as Ninth farmer
Hermann Meyer-Falkow [de] as Tenth farmer
Fritz Eckert as Kolonialoffizier
Toni Tetzlaff as Aunt Estella
Antonie Jaeckel as First Aunt
Maria Krahn as Second Aunt
Anneliese Würtz [de; fr] as Third Aunt
Luise Morland [de] as Sophie

References edit

^ Hake, Sabine (2009). Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim (eds.). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York, NY: Berghahn Books. p. 82. doi:10.2307/j.ctt1x76dm6. ISBN 978-1571816559. JSTOR j.ctt1x76dm6. S2CID 252868046.

Bibliography edit

Kreimeier, Klaus (1999). The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918-1945. Translated by Kimber, Robert; Kimber, Rita. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ISBN 0520220692.

External links edit

Congo Express at IMDb

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February 13, 2024

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